Judge Tim Kelly’s Court of Contempt – IOTW Report

Judge Tim Kelly’s Court of Contempt

American Greatness:

Following an armed FBI raid with SWAT vehicles that terrorized his neighborhood and pregnant wife, Zachary Rehl was arrested in March 2021 for his involvement in the events of January 6. A Philadelphia judge ordered Rehl, a member of the Proud Boys, to be released from custody pending trial.

But Joe Biden’s Justice Department immediately asked a D.C. federal judge to keep Rehl in jail indefinitely even though he was not accused of committing a violent crime. Claiming Rehl “abetted” the destruction of government property—“a federal crime of terrorism,” prosecutors wrote—the government argued that no condition of release could keep the community safe from Rehl, a former Marine with no criminal history.

Enter D.C. District Court Judge Timothy Kelly.

“The Court finds that the nature and circumstances of the offenses weigh in favor of detention,” Kelly wrote in his July 2021 order. “[Although] there is no evidence Rehl carried or used a weapon that day, or laid his hands on anyone in a violent manner, he said and did things that are highly troubling.”

After spending two years in jail not convicted of any crime, Rehl is currently on trial in Kelly’s courtroom along with four other Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy—an indictment filed a year after their initial charges. Kelly has kept all five defendants behind bars awaiting trial, repeatedly denying all subsequent motions for release while at the same time granting one delay after another. more

12 Comments on Judge Tim Kelly’s Court of Contempt

  1. “How is our government different than Nazi Germany?”

    Or the Soviet Union?
    Or Communist China?
    Or Fascist Italy?
    Or Hoxha’s Albania?
    Or Pot’s Cambodia?
    Or Venezuela?
    Or North Korea?
    Or Ceaușescu’s Romania?
    &c.

    Gee … there seems to be some common threads to Nihilistic Totalitarian Governments.

    mortem tyrannis
    izlamo delenda est …

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