General Discussion

What do you think should be the sentence for 100 individuals who didn't know each other, didn't communicate, just followed a crowd and were charged with "Entering and Remaining in a Restricted Building; Disorderly and Disruptive Conduct in a Restricted Building; Violent Entry and Disorderly Conduct in a Capitol Building; Parading, Demonstrating, or Picketing in a Capitol Building"? Are those one charge or separate charges?

Here's justice.gov list (easy for you to access) of who's being 'processed' across at least 20 states. Check it out.

https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/capitol-breach-cases

It's main justice's federal prosecutors at state levels that handle these. So based on their charges, there turn out to be a couple hundred or more arrestees who are out on personal recognizance ... which is up to the judges. Not any attorney general. Right?

It's not fair for you to equate your knowing nothing with the DOJ doing nothing.

fyi, out of the 113 that have been convicted (a number that increases every single day) the first 20 are at the lowest level of sentencing.

This is building a precedence of rulings that make the punishment fit the individual crime on a case-by-case basis.

No person acted alone, and yet the harm to the capitol and the People's Congress were greater than the sum of their individual actions, but each and every one is tried for their individual actions. Because the whole ended up being a collective act of sedition and insurrection, doesn't mean each individual's actions can be charged with sedition.

There are still 318 indicted by grand juries that are in court or still have to go to court.

I'm no lawyer, but given the unusual number of charged persons -- 649 -- this lowest group fit the pattern of the FBI's and DOJ's up-the-chain method of prosecutions and sentence recommendations.