J6 Officers Fire Back at Trump with New Lawsuit
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They don't have the plaque that they were that Congress approved for January 6, a brass plaque in the halls of Congress commemorating what they did, because Mike Johnson won't put it up because of political pressure, because of Donald Trump's union.

and his joining forces with Jan 6th insurrectionists and QAnon theorists and all sorts of conspiracy theorists and then awarding, giving, they had no problem giving Ashley Babbitt's family, a woman who with a backpack and military training tried to get down the end of the speaker's hallway to kill elected officials. What do people think she was going to do when she reached the end of that hallway if she wasn't stopped by one bullet?

Hand out daisies? No, that's not what she was going to do. Has anybody seen the video of Ashley Babbitt? She's like a demented, crazed animal, all right? And so that happens. There's a settlement with Ashley Babbitt's family for millions and millions of taxpayer dollars. Then you got Donald Trump this week disgracing and demeaning the memory and black Americans by ripping the name off of a fort

that was honoring the highest ranking black officer, male officer, and the then highest ranking female black officer in the army during World War II and taking their names off Fort Gregg Adams, no longer. Now named after, now returned to being Fort Lee.

But not that Lee, because they like to play games. Not Robert E. Lee. It's named after another guy, a private in the Spanish-American War. They're just using these, you know, these name switches. And they've had it. And they filed their lawsuit. It is time to put a plaque up for the people that protected our democracy from burning to the ground. Harry Dunn and Daniel Hodges are right. And they filed their new suit.

in, looks like in Boston, Boston, Massachusetts, which I like, actually. It's in, I'm sorry, no, it's been filed. I don't know why I said Boston. Their lawyers are from Boston. In the District of Columbia against Thomas Austin as the architect of the Capitol, who's responsible for getting that plaque up. It's already been approved. You're here on Midas Touch and on Legal AF. I'm Michael Popak. Let's get to the suit.

On paragraph two, to honor the officers who defended them in 2022, Congress passed a law directing the architect of the Capitol to install a memorial listing the names of the officers...

who defended the building and those inside. Yet after the law was passed, the politics around Jan. 6 changed, and many politicians who once spoke plainly about the dangers of that day began to rewrite history and minimize the terror of the attack. Four years since Congress passed the law and three years since the deadline for its installation has lapsed, the memorial has not been put up.

Plaintiff Harry Dunn is a former officer because he retired after this bloodbath that was the Capitol attack. He was an officer of the U.S. Capitol Police, Hodges of the Metropolitan Police Department. Both men defended the Capitol on Jan. 6th and risked their lives to do so.

They bring this suit to compel Congress to follow its own law and install the mandated memorial to honor the women and men who saved the lives of those inside the building and to ensure that the history of this attack on the Capitol and on democracy is not forgotten. They go through the entire statement of facts about the attack on the Capitol, including the role of Mike Pence and the attempted hanging of Mike Pence and their role in

protecting democracy with an outmatched and outnumbered and poorly out-weaponed. They didn't even have the right weapons. The weather, it's heating up and your nighttime bedroom temperature has a huge impact on your sleep quality. If you wake up too hot or too cold, I highly recommend you check out Miracle Maid's bedsheets.

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It is the sense of Congress that the United States owes its deepest gratitude to those officers of the United States Capitol Police and the Metropolitan Police Department of the District of Columbia, as well as officers from other federal, state, and local law enforcement agencies and protective entities who valiantly protected the United States Capitol, members of Congress, and staff on Jan 6, 2021.

The law directed that within one year after the enactment of the act, the architect of the Capitol obtained a plaque listing the names of all officers who responded to the violence that occurred at the United States Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. Then they go into the history of the Jan 6 is rewritten, the pardons and the like. And now they're seeking, they're saying it's a violation of the Equal Protection Clause.

because they've been arbitrarily discriminated against, as have all similarly situated officers. And they're being denied equal protection of the law, the law being the law that authorized and mandated that plaque go up. And they're also seeking a mandamus. A mandamus is an order from a judge that directs and compels a federal or state officer to do something within their official capacity. So they want a mandamus

that requires that the architect of the Capitol install that monument. I'm sure the Department of Justice is going to try to step in, try to take out the architect, try to argue that there's no jurisdiction over him, there's no liability, you can't grant a mandamus, all to sully, continue to sully the name of the fallen.

But I want this to be the fight. I'm so glad that Dunn and Hodges did this because America needs to see what its president is all about, how he dishonors the memories of those that protected our democracy and our rule of law. He did it with the pardons.

He's doing it again with not putting up this statute and this plaque. And the people that were being protected are members of Congress who voted for the plaque and they know better. Let's see what happens with their answer and we find out more about which judge is gonna be assigned to this case. And I'll cover that all as I always do right here on the Midas Touch Network and on Legal AF. I'm Michael Popak. I do this kind of reporting

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unvarnished, untethered, unplugged, all here with the type of analysis I think you've come to expect from me on the Midas Touch Network. So until my next report, I'm Michael Popak.

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