I'm writing a story for my Subway Stacker column on the representations made by the Solicitor General yesterday to the Supreme Court with respect to the nature of sentences handed down for J6 defendants convicted of violating Sec. 1512(c)(2). As I work through what she said, and what the facts are based on my own involvement, I felt the need to come here and post a comment before my article goes out in a couple of hours. The Solicitor General engaged in a duplicitous and deceptive "cherry-picking" of data in order to make a representation to the Justices that was false. Maybe she misled them deliberately, or maybe she was simply given incomplete facts to work with in fashioning her argument. But the United States Department of Justice lied to the Supreme Court yesterday. The article will be up soon.
@shipwreckedcrew Is there any controlling legal authority who cares?
@shipwreckedcrew What recourse is there to this? Once oral arguments are done, is there any follow-up briefing that would enable the misstatements to be pointed out?
@shipwreckedcrew Would SCOTUS have access to your research and article? Is there a way to get their eyes on it? Thank you for being the warrior you are. We only need about 100 more of YOU and we can turn this ship around. I learn A LOT from your posts and appreciate you. 🇺🇸
@shipwreckedcrew I think this story is so important that it deserves a public publish here on Twitter.
@shipwreckedcrew I am shocked *yawn* to discover this.
@shipwreckedcrew I kinda got the feeling the Justices sensed that. But what do I know.
@shipwreckedcrew Are they under any obligation to correct the testimony if they know it was false?