YouTube to pay Trump $33.46m following January 6 Capitol riots ban

YouTube has agreed to pay $US22 million ($33.46 million) to US President Donald Trump as part of a…
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You couldn’t make this rubbish up. Surely it can’t get any more ridiculous? It’s like going to see a football game, rioting and storming the pitch, then demanding compensation when the game’s called off.

Proud Boys sue US government for $100m over Jan 6 prosecutions https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cr4z7zyl0gwo

Proud Boys sue US government for $100m over Jan 6 prosecutions

Leaders of the far-right group, who were convicted and later pardoned, allege their constitutional rights were violated.

Dozens of Jan. 6 defendants who received pardons from President Trump had past criminal convictions for charges including rape, manslaughter, domestic violence and drug trafficking.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/national/2025/01/30/512400/criminal-records-of-jan-6-rioters-pardoned-by-trump-include-rape-domestic-violence/

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Criminal records of Jan. 6 rioters pardoned by Trump include rape, domestic violence

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The U.S. Supreme Court appeared divided, with conservatives expressing various degrees of skepticism about the statute used to prosecute more than 350 people involved with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/court/supreme-court/2024/04/17/483893/supreme-court-gives-skeptical-eye-to-key-statute-used-to-prosecute-jan-6-rioters/

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Supreme Court gives skeptical eye to key statute used to prosecute Jan. 6 rioters

Conservatives on the court expressed varying degrees of skepticism about the charge of obstructing an official proceeding.

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#PresidentBidentospeak on democracy on Friday near #ValleyForge due to impending inclement weather instead of Saturday as previously planned to mark the third anniversary of the #Jan6riots at the U.S. Capitol.

https://thehill.com/homenews/administration/4388709-biden-moving-speech-on-democracy-jan-6-winter-storm/

Biden moving up planned speech on democracy due to expected winter storm

President Biden moved his speech on democracy, marking the anniversary of Jan. 6, up a day due to the incoming winter storm in the Northeast and mid-Atlantic regions this weekend. The president was set to travel to the Philadelphia area on Saturday to mark the three year anniversary of the riots at the U.S. Capitol.…

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Barring Trump from office could bring closure for Jan. 6 riots, former officer says

Former U.S. Capitol Police Sergeant Aquilino Gonell said he thinks former President Trump being barred from office could bring closure for the Jan. 6 riots. “What is closure for me? I don’t know,” Gonell told Dean Obeidallah in an interview on SiriusXM. “It could be that [Trump] gets barred from political office and never set…

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