What a sad commentary of the establishment Republicans. For a while now, conservative publications have published stories about Biden’s prisoners of war who are being kept in solitary confinement.
Finally, someone is doing something about it. Unfortunately it is two Democratic Senators, Durbin and Warren.
Warren says she is afraid that they are punishing the prisoners harshly in order to get them to cooperate.
At least one of those prisoners never made it into the Capitol. Where are the Republicans? Maybe a few of them will join the other two after the pair of Democrats have the guts to speak up about the inhumane treatment the prisoners are getting.
They are not even allowed to, post bail.
After Biden got in the DOJ dropped most of the charges against antifa and BLM rioters. I guess all riots are not created equal.
Maybe the rioters from January 6th should have looted and burned some businesses.
Via Politico.
Sen. Elizabeth Warren fled the Capitol on Jan. 6 from a mob she later called domestic terrorists. Now she and another Senate Democratic leader are standing up for their attackers’ rights as criminal defendants.
Most of the 300-plus people charged with participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot have been released while they await trial, but dozens of those deemed to be dangerous, flight risks or at high risk of obstructing justice were ordered held without bond. D.C. jail officials later determined that all Capitol detainees would be placed in so-called restrictive housing — a move billed as necessary to keep the defendants safe, as well as guards and other inmates. But that means 23-hour-a-day isolation for the accused, even before their trials begin.
And such treatment doesn’t sit well with Warren or Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.), two of the chamber’s fiercest critics of solitary confinement.
“Solitary confinement is a form of punishment that is cruel and psychologically damaging,” Warren said in an interview. “And we’re talking about people who haven’t been convicted of anything yet.”
The Massachusetts Democrat, a member of Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer’s leadership team, said that while some limited uses of solitary confinement are justified, she’s worried that law enforcement officials are deploying it to “punish” the Jan. 6 defendants or to “break them so that they will cooperate.”
