Chief Judge Beryl Howell a Tool for the “Rich and Powerful”
The UNITED STATES DISTRICT COURT OF THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA
Is supposed to be the home for Civil Rights Cases
BUT INSTEAD
It is run by Chief Judge Beryl Howell who supports and by all appearance HATES AND SUPPORTS HATE CRIMESIf they hurt her “FRIENDS”
Heavily invested in the TECH and BANKS (Wells Fargo et al)
It doesn’t matter if a Judge is Republican and or Democrat - even though you can you usually tell by there rulings. They are also chosen by if they are Republican and or Democrat as to whom is in office.
The United States Constitution by most Judges is used to wipe there shit when they poop,
The WSJ has not reported her conflicts most likely out of support of her husband a Michael Rosenfeld is an award-winning producer, writer, and television executive with extensive leadership experience in documentary production and new media.
He has produced and written films covering a broad sweep of topics, from anthropology to history to volcanology. Prior to joining TPT as head of national production, Rosenfeld served as president of National Geographic Television and head of television and film at Tangled Bank Studios.
In a career spanning network broadcast, cable, and public television, he has won or led teams that won hundreds of industry awards, including the Peabody and 40 News & Documentary Emmy Awards.
Chief Judge Beryl Howell of the USDC of the District of Columbia supported and Covered up for the Past Chief Judge Richard Roberts who RAPED A 16-YEAR-OLD VICTIM
On the J6 cases, she is further showing her BIAS: Radix Verum
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Judge Beryl Howell: Punishing January 6 Defendants for Political Reasons
Meet the conflicted, biased judge who will decide the fate of many J6 defendants...
Judge Beryl A. Howell is a Barak Obama appointee and incumbent Chief United States District Judge for the District of Columbia. She was a federal judge supervising the grand jury for special counsel Robert Mueller's probe into Russian interference in the 2016 United States elections. This is part of the conflict of interest that should bar her from taking part in the January 6 cases. Americans often have a false notion of impartiality and objectivity of federal judges. They think these judges are apolitical and always adhere to professional and legal standards in their administration of “justice”. This couldn’t be further from the truth. Having worked in law myself for around a decade from civil litigation to family law, I have seen it all. I know exactly how political these judges are, and how they show favoritism to the lawyers whose firms make large contributions to their re-election campaigns. I have seen how they play the game, as we called it.
I was therefore not at all shocked to see how Judge Howell has taken to characterizing the January 6 defendants. Judge Howell made cynical and gross proclamations about the personal intentions of a recent January 6 defendant in what his purpose for being at the Capitol was that day. Many of the defendants had no “plans” to disrupt the electoral college vote and simply came to see the President speak as they had every other Trump rally in the past.
Judge Howell has no business trying to divine “intentions” of defendants, and insisting they were there for a specific reason. This is especially true when the government and prosecution isn’t even attempting to make that claim.
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2 federal judges are poised to quietly begin unlocking reams of Jan. 6 secrets for Congress
The information, from Donald Trump's White House files and from the rioters themselves, could dramatically reshape the public’s understanding of the insurrection.
Judge Beryl A. Howell, the chief of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., has implicitly encouraged Jan. 6 defendants to cooperate with congressional investigators. | Pablo Martinez Monsivais/AP Photo
By KYLE CHENEY and JOSH GERSTEIN
11/04/2021 04:30 AM EDT
Most Americans haven’t heard of Beryl Howell and Tanya Chutkan. Yet these two federal judges are poised to help deliver troves of hidden information to congressional investigators over the next few weeks that could dramatically reshape the public’s understanding of the Jan. 6 insurrection.
On Thursday, Chutkan, a 2014 appointee of President Barack Obama, will weigh former President Donald Trump’s effort to shield his White House records from the Jan. 6 select committee. Her ruling there could help lawmakers obtain call records, visitor logs and highly sensitive files from Trump’s senior aides.
In recent days, Howell, the chief of U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., and a 2010 Obama appointee, has implicitly encouraged Jan. 6 defendants to cooperate with congressional investigators. Last week, she praised a convicted rioter, Leonard Gruppo, for his decision to be interviewed by the select committee last month.
Howell sentenced the military veteran to home confinement and probation, saying he demonstrated genuine remorse, "particularly by talking to members of Congress on the select committee to help deter other people with the specialized training you [received] in the military, not to turn it against fellow Americans.” Several other rioters who have pleaded guilty are preparing to testify, and more may take cues from Howell’s decision.
Despite their relatively low profiles, Howell and Chutkan have used their courtrooms to help force a national reckoning about Jan. 6 and to sound blaring alarms about the fundamental assault unleashed by these Trump-aligned rioters on American democracy. While House investigators fight to wring information out of Trump’s confidants, the judges are complementing and bolstering their efforts. And they’re helping frame the stakes of the national debate as they do it.
“The rioters attacking the Capitol on January 6 were not mere trespassers engaging in protected First Amendment conduct or protests. … Countless videos show the mob that attacked the Capitol was violent. Everyone participating in the mob contributed to that violence,” Howell said at a sentencing hearing last week. “The damage to the reputation of our democracy, which is usually held up around the world — but that reputation suffered because of January 6.”
For Howell, the attack on the Capitol hit particularly close to home. She served as a top aide to the Senate Judiciary Committee under the chairmanship of Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) from 1993 to 2002. Leahy, during her confirmation hearing in 2010, described her as ”one of the most effective members of our Judiciary Committee staff.” Some of the cases she led in her subsequent career as a prosecutor, Leahy said, “read like crime novels.”
Howell has noted in some of the Jan. 6 cases before her court that the attack on her old office was partly visible from her courthouse’s east-facing windows. She has channeled a sense of outrage as she has described the alleged conduct of some of the rioters in her courtroom, like Thomas Sibick, who ripped away the badge and radio of D.C. Police Officer Michael Fanone as he struggled to defend himself amid the riot. And she has pressed prosecutors, in particular, to more clearly articulate the threat that the Jan. 6 attack posed to democracy, calling the Justice Department’s approach “almost schizophrenic” at times.
Howell has also chastised prosecutors for declining to challenge a decision of the Federal Appeals Court that facilitated the pretrial release of rioter Eric Munchel, who appeared in a now-famous photo careening through the Senate gallery while wielding zip ties.
Howell has made clear she views her role partly as helping force more facts about the insurrection into the public domain. She has pressed for the public release of surveillance footage closely held by the U.S. Capitol Police, as well as other videos relied upon by prosecutors. She has pressed defendants themselves to articulate the reasons they entered the Capitol, going beyond what most other judges have asked of defendants in their courtrooms.
“She, I’m sure, of course, feels deeply the offenses that took place on Jan. 6, the breach of our constitutional system and traditions,” said Ronald Weich, a longtime aide to then-Senate Democratic leader Harry Reid. “It was traumatic to watch that, having been many times in those hallways. I’m sure Judge Howell had the same kind of reaction, but she knows a judge has to put her emotions aside and nonetheless would feel acutely the outrageous breach that occurred.”
Howell has also earned respect from defense attorneys for some of the rioters, even as she has excoriated their clients for their actions on Jan. 6. Gruppo’s attorney Daniel Lindsey said he appreciated that Howell understood his client’s assertion that his presence at the Capitol was driven by Trump himself. He called Howell “a brilliant jurist with a photographic memory.”
She has also rankled others, however, with her pointed lines of questioning. An attorney for Glenn Croy, one of more than 100 rioters who have pleaded guilty to misdemeanor crimes for their actions on Jan. 6, said Howell’s “intimidating” tone during Croy’s plea hearing caused him to incorrectly say that he intended to disrupt Congress’ session that day.
“Undersigned counsel means no disrespect to the Court,” wrote the attorney, Kira West, “but the plea colloquy in this case was the toughest in the nearly 30 year criminal prosecution and defense career of undersigned counsel.”
Chutkan, like Howell, has used her courtroom to reject efforts by defendants to minimize what occurred on Jan. 6. She excoriated Troy Smocks, who is Black, for claiming that racism played a role in proescutors’ decision to detain him for issuing social media threats of violence against lawmakers related to Jan. 6. And she has twice in recent weeks delivered a sentence that exceeded what prosecutors had asked for in Jan. 6 cases.
“He went to the Capitol in support of one man, not in support of our country,” Chutkan said of defendant Carl Mazzocco, one of the few clear Trump references that judges have made as they consider these cases.
Chutkan’s comments in that case came days after Judge Trevor McFadden, a Trump appointee, questioned the government’s approach to Jan. 6 cases and wondered whether they had taken a different one toward the riots that accompanied racial justice protests in D.C. over the summer of 2020. Chutkan, who said she had been listening to the comments other judges had made in these cases, rejected the comparison. Rather, she said, Jan. 6 defendants have been treated arguably more gently than those charged over the summer — since the pro-Trump rioters were not arrested on the spot and were permitted to participate in their proceedings remotely. Many, she noted, have received single-count plea deals despite facing multiple charges.
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https://www.politico.com/news/2021/11/04/federal-judges-reams-jan-6-secrets-congress-519232
THIS IS NOT A JUDGE WHO RULES BY THE CONSTITUTION OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA - THIS IS A JUDGE WHO RULES BY:
FRIENDSHIP - BEING JEWISH, DEMOCRAT, AND VERY VERY WEALTHY
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