{"id":1942728,"date":"2023-06-02T12:00:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-january-6-convictions-suggest-trump-could-face-sedition-charges-experts-say\/"},"modified":"2023-06-02T12:04:46","modified_gmt":"2023-06-02T16:04:46","slug":"analysis-january-6-convictions-suggest-trump-could-face-sedition-charges-experts-say","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-january-6-convictions-suggest-trump-could-face-sedition-charges-experts-say\/","title":{"rendered":"Experts say Trump may face sedition charges based on January 6 convictions."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fanalysis-january-6-convictions-suggest-trump-could-face-sedition-charges-experts-say%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1942728&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>Could Trump Face Charges of \u2018Seditious Conspiracy\u2019?<\/h2>\n<div class=\"post_content\">\n<blockquote>\n<p>Recent convictions of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/trump-is-indicted-heres-what-happens-to-him-next-in-court\/\" title=\"Trump Is Indicted: Here\u2019s What Happens to Him Next in Court\">high-profile defendants<\/a> in Jan. 6, 2021, cases may tempt prosecutors to pursue charges of \u201cseditious conspiracy\u201d against former President Donald Trump in connection with unrest at the U.S. Capitol, legal analysts say.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Former President Donald Trump may face charges of \u201cseditious conspiracy\u201d in connection with the unrest at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. However, legal analysts suggest that Trump has <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/analysis-january-6-convictions-suggest-trump-could-face-sedition-charges-experts-say\/\" title=\"Experts say Trump may face sedition charges based on January 6 convictions.\">strong plausible defenses<\/a> to such a charge. Prosecutors also risk stoking more political backlash if a Democrat-led administration presses a federal case against the leading Republican presidential candidate.<\/p>\n<h3>State-Level Charges Already Brought Against Trump<\/h3>\n<p>State-level \u201cfalse business records\u201d charges have already been brought against Trump in New York. A second state prosecution could follow over Trump\u2019s opposition to the 2020 election tallies in Georgia. Democrat prosecutors oversee both cases, fueling Trump\u2019s contention that the probes are politically motivated.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/reports-red-flag-laws-result-in-66-firearm-confiscations\/\" title=\"Reports: Red flag laws result in 66 firearm confiscations\">federal level<\/a>, Special Counsel Jack Smith has been investigating Trump on two fronts: alleged mishandling of classified documents at his Mar-a-Lago residence in Palm Beach, Florida, and Trump\u2019s actions surrounding Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Although Trump could also be vulnerable to charges stemming from \u201cdocument-gate,\u201d rumblings about Smith pursuing a Jan. 6-related indictment of Trump have intensified following recent events.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_4882851\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2022\/11\/23\/GettyImages-1229550569-1200x660.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> American prosecutor Jack Smith presides during a presentation before a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/september-11-accomplice-leaves-guantanamo-bay-sent-home-to-saudi-arabia\/\" title=\"September 11 Accomplice Leaves Guantanamo Bay: Sent Home to Saudi Arabia\">war crimes court<\/a> in The Hague on Nov. 9, 2020. (Jerry Lampen\/Pool\/AFP via Getty Images)<\/figure>\n<h2>\u2018Peaceful\u2019 Admonition a Defense<\/h2>\n<p>Former law professor Rob Natelson, a senior fellow at the Independence Institute, a Colorado-based libertarian think tank, thinks prosecutors would probably have a tough time proving a seditious-conspiracy case against Trump.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFormer President Trump is on record as telling his supporters to proceed peacefully to the Capitol,\u201d Natelson pointed out in a May 26 interview with The Epoch Times.<\/p>\n<p>Trump\u2019s urging for a massive crowd to march \u201cpeacefully and patriotically\u201d appears to contradict accusations that Trump was trying to incite a violent attack against the U.S. government during the waning days of his presidency, Natelson said.<\/p>\n<figure style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript> Legal scholar Rob Natelson.(Independence Institute)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\u201cI should mention: I\u2019m no particular Trump apologist, you know. I don\u2019t support him for reelection, for example,\u201d Natelson said. \u201cBut I do think it\u2019s ridiculous to charge him with sedition. That\u2019s absurd.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Still, Natelson said, he can foresee the potential for a prosecution to be attempted \u201cin these days in which the law is so often weaponized.\u201d<\/p>\n<h2>Hundreds of Days Jailed, Awaiting Trial<\/h2>\n<p>So far, at least 1,020 people have been charged with Jan. 6 offenses, according to a database compiled by LookAheadAmerica.org, a nonpartisan, nonprofit group devoted to election integrity and citizens\u2019 rights.<\/p>\n<p>The database shows that dozens of Jan. 6 defendants have been jailed for long periods while awaiting trial. As of May 31, about 145 people were behind bars for Jan. 6 charges. \u201cMany have been detained for more than 800 days,\u201d the group\u2019s data analysis says. \u201cJake Lang, who came to Rosanne Boyland\u2019s aid as she was dying and beaten on the steps of the Capitol building, is currently imprisoned 865 days, pretrial. In comparison, in 1979, a hostile Iranian regime held, and then released, 52 American hostages for 444 days,\u201d Look Ahead America points out.<\/p>\n<p>As The Epoch Times reported in its 2022 documentary, \u201cThe Real Story of January 6,\u201d large numbers of protesters, concerned about whether the 2020 election was legitimate, simply carried signs, sang, and chanted.<\/p>\n<p>Many people stayed outside the building and remained peaceful. Some entered through opened doors of the Capitol and strolled through the corridors like tourists, causing no harm; a number were coaxed inside. But other participants did turn violent, attacking police and vandalizing property.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_5090224\" style=\"width: 600px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/img.theepochtimes.com\/assets\/uploads\/2023\/02\/28\/Pink_Beret_Collage3-1200x790.jpg\"><figcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\"><noscript><\/noscript><\/figcaption><\/a> A woman known only as \u201cPink Beret\u201d directed and lured people into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a defense attorney contends. (U.S. District Court-Open Source Video\/Screenshots via The Epoch Times)<\/figure>\n<h2>Sedition Charge Debated<\/h2>\n<p>At least a half-dozen Jan. 6 defendants have been convicted of seditious conspiracy\u2013a severe, rarely used accusation. The charge has been on the books since the Civil War ended; it was intended for use against Southerners bent on rebelling against the federal government.<\/p>\n<p>Such a charge alleges that at least two people worked together to \u201coverthrow, put down, or to destroy by force\u201d the U.S. government, oppose its authority, or prevent a law from being executed.<\/p>\n<p>Federal prosecutors successfully argued that members of two right-wing groups, the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, conspired to interfere with Congress\u2019 ceremonial counting of the Electoral College<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Legal analysts suggest that recent convictions of high-profile defendants in Jan. 6 cases may lead prosecutors to consider charging former President Donald Trump with &#8220;seditious conspiracy&#8221; for his alleged involvement in the Capitol unrest. However, Trump has strong defenses against such charges, and prosecutors may face political backlash if they pursue them.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1196,"featured_media":1942729,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[543],"tags":[10859,4035,13802,4521,3780,25924,3634],"class_list":["post-1942728","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-epoch-times","tag-based","tag-charges","tag-convictions","tag-experts","tag-january","tag-sedition","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942728","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1196"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1942728"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1942728\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1942729"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1942728"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1942728"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1942728"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}