Two U.S. Capitol Police officers have filed a lawsuit against former President Donald Trump, saying he incited the deadly Jan.
6 insurrection and was responsible for physical and emotional injuries they suffered as a result.
The officers, James Blassingame and Sidney Hemby, who have been with the force for a combined 28 years filed the lawsuit on Tuesday seeking damages of at least $75,000 each.
His office did not immediately return a call for comment on the lawsuit but Trump has in the past denied responsibility for the rioting, which left five people dead.
The lawsuit cites the former Republican president's conduct before and beyond the Nov.
3 presidential election, highlighting Trump's encouragement to supporters to come to the Capitol on Jan.
6 to "Stop The Steal" in the months after the election.
Trump on Jan.
6: "We're going to walk down to the Capitol" Before the riot, Trump encouraged his supporters in a speech to march on the Capitol building to express their anger over an election Trump insisted without evidence was stolen from him.
The lawsuit said Trump stoked violence throughout the 2020 presidential campaign and escalated his false claims that the election was rigged after the election was called for now-president Joe Biden.
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Supreme Court Rules That , Some Jan. 6 Defendants, Were Improperly Charged.
NPR reports that the United States Supreme Court voted to limit which defendants accused of taking part in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot can be charged by federal prosecutors.
The decision also casts doubt on two out of
the four felony counts in former President
Donald Trump's election subversion indictment.
According to conservative Chief Justice John Roberts,
the court ruled that the U.S. government must prove , “that the defendant impaired the availability or integrity
for use in an official proceeding of records, documents,
objects, or other things used in an official proceeding.”.
NPR reports that prosecutors relied
on a key criminal statute to prosecute
over 350 participants of the Capitol riot.
The statute makes it a crime to alter or
destroy official documents, or to otherwise
obstruct or impede official proceedings.
Roberts wrote that the statute was
not meant to broaden the meaning of
the law to make it a catchall provision. .
The decision will impact other cases related
to Jan. 6, many of which will have to be
resentenced, retried or defendants will be released. .
NYU law professor Ryan Goodman authored
a study that found only 346 of the 1,417 people
charged in connection with the Capitol riot
were charged under the obstruction statute.
The study also found that 71 people are still
awaiting trial on the obstruction charge, but over
half of them are also charged with another felony.
NPR points out that if found guilty of other felony charges,
the sentencing judge is still allowed to use the charge of
obstruction to determine the length of their sentence.
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