TIMOTHY KELLY

Other Jan. 6 defendants have made similar attempts to call Trump as a witness, to no avail, after judges and prosecutors alike opposed the moves.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly has frequently scolded Proud Boys' defense lawyers for interrupting and talking over him, warning that he could find them in contempt.

The Proud Boys face up to 20 years in prison if convicted of seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors say it culminated with Proud Boys mounting a coordinated assault on the Capitol alongside hundreds of other Trump supporters. The Proud Boys trial is on a pace to last several weeks longer than last year's landmark trial for Oath Keepers group leaders and members, who were charged in a separate Jan. 6 case. A dozen of the first 14 prosecution witnesses in the Proud Boys trial have been FBI agents and other law enforcement officials. Jurors also have heard testimony from a former Proud Boys member who cut a plea deal with prosecutors and a British documentary filmmaker who was embedded with the Proud Boys on Jan. 6.

The seditious conspiracy trial of five Proud Boys leaders charged in the Capitol riot has been going on for a month now in federal court in Washington, and bickering between lawyers and the judge has bogged things down.

The Capitol riot trial for Proud Boys leaders promised to be a historic showcase for some of the most compelling evidence of an alleged plot by far-right extremists to halt the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election. Lawyers representing the five Proud Boys charged with seditious conspiracy have repeatedly sparred with U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly during breaks in testimony. Two defense lawyers at one point floated the idea of withdrawing from the case if Kelly did not rule in their favor on evidentiary matters.

Jury selection for the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants will resume in early January after a holiday break.

WASHINGTON — (AP) — Jury selection for the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants will resume in early January after a holiday break, according to court records. Jury selection is scheduled to resume on Jan. 3. Before jury selection started on Monday, Kelly denied a request by defense attorneys to postpone the start of the trial until the new year. The trial for the Proud Boys is expected to last at least six weeks. Tarrio, of Miami, was the national chairman of the Proud Boys on Jan. 6.

Jury selection for the seditious conspiracy trial of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio and four lieutenants will resume in early January after a holiday break.

He led a group that chased Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up a staircase. “Doug Jensen wanted to be the poster boy of the insurrection,” prosecutor Emily Allen said. Davis has argued Jensen was dressed as a “walking advertisement for QAnon" and not intending to attack the Capitol. Pence was presiding over the Senate on Jan. 6 as a joint session of Congress was convened to certify President Joe Biden’s 2020 electoral victory. Approximately 900 people have been charged with federal crimes for their conduct on Jan. 6.

An Iowa construction worker has been sentenced to five years in prison after being at the center of of one of the most harrowing scenes of the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol.

Jeremy Joseph Bertino, 43, has agreed to cooperate with the Justice Department's investigation of the role that Proud Boys leaders played in the mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal prosecutor said. Bertino also pleaded guilty to a charge of unlawfully possessing firearms in March 2022 in Belmont, North Carolina. The Civil War-era seditious conspiracy charge carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison. More than three dozen people charged in the Capitol siege have been identified by federal authorities as leaders, members or associates of the Proud Boys. Proud Boys members describe the group as a politically incorrect men’s club for “Western chauvinists.” They have brawled with antifascist activists at rallies and protests.

A North Carolina man has pleaded guilty to plotting with other members of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group to violently stop the transfer of presidential power after the 2020 election.

A trial is underway for an Iowa man whose confrontation with police created some of the most memorable images from a mob's attack on the U.S. Capitol.

A little-known federal judge appointed to the bench two years ago by Donald Trump is in the spotlight this week over her decision to hand the former president a major procedural win.

A Maryland man affiliated with the far-right Proud Boys extremist group has been sentenced to more than four years in prison for storming the U.S. Capitol.

More Capitol riot defendants are pushing to get their trials moved out of Washington, D.

Defense attorneys for several of the men argued that their clients couldn’t get a fair trial by an impartial jury so soon after Jan.6 hearings.

Defense attorneys for several of the men argued that their clients couldn’t get a fair trial by an impartial jury so soon after Jan.6 hearings.

A federal judge has agreed to postpone a trial for the former leader of the Proud Boys and other members of the far-right extremist group charged with attacking the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying the Electoral College vote.

It relies on warmed-over arguments that have failed before, and in one case actually misquotes a top Democrat on the committee.

Henry "Enrique" Tarrio poses a danger to the public, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said in an order issued late Friday.

A federal judge has ruled that former Proud Boys national chairman Henry “Enrique” Tarrio must remain jailed while awaiting trial on charges that he conspired with other members of the far-right extremist group to attack the U.S. Capitol.

The ruling, from a Trump-appointed judge, is also a potentially significant one for future committee efforts to obtain information

The select committee issued its subpoena to Salesforce in late February, and the RNC sued several days later to block the demand.

Charles Donohoe, the leader of a North Carolina Proud Boys chapter, has pleaded guilty to conspiracy and agreed to cooperate with the federal investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the US Capitol.

U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly on Tuesday rejected defense attorneys' arguments that the four men are charged with conduct that is protected by the First Amendment right to free speech.

Capitol Breach Proud Boys FILE - Proud Boys members Joseph Biggs, left, and Ethan Nordean, right with megaphone, walk toward the U.S. Capitol in Washington, Jan. 6, 2021. Nordean, Biggs, Rehl and Donohoe were indicted in March on charges including conspiracy and obstructing an official proceeding. Last Wednesday, a New York man pleaded guilty to storming the U.S. Capitol with fellow Proud Boys members. Nordean, of Auburn, Washington, was a Proud Boys chapter president and member of the group’s national “Elders Council.” Biggs, of Ormond Beach, Florida, is a self-described Proud Boys organizer. Several Proud Boys also entered the Capitol building itself after the mob smashed windows and forced open doors.

A federal judge has refused to throw out an indictment charging four alleged leaders of the far-right Proud Boys with conspiring to attack the U.S. Capitol to stop Congress from certifying President Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

Capitol Breach QAnon Believer FILE - This undated photo provided by Polk County, Iowa Jail shows Douglas Jensen. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said that Doug Jensen, 42, of Des Moines, Iowa, had violated the strict conditions that were set when he released Jensen from jail on July 13, including prohibitions on accessing the internet and using a cellphone. Kelly said it was significant that Jensen's violations were caught during the first unannounced visit to his home by pretrial services officers. Jensen was among the first people to enter the Capitol during the Jan. 6 attack, crawling through a broken window. Before his July release, Jensen had spent six months in jail after he was arrested Jan. 8.

A federal judge is ordering a prominent participant in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol to return to jail, saying he violated his pretrial release conditions by accessing the internet to watch false conspiracies about the election.

Fight at Green Valley High School prompts police response and false reports of a gun on the school campus.

An Iowa man charged with taking part in the Jan. 6 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol has asked a judge not to send him back to jail even though he was caught violating the terms of his pretrial release by accessing the internet.

A prosecutor says an Iowa man seen in a videotaped confrontation with a police officer during the Capitol insurrection should be returned to jail until trial because he violated terms of his release by watching anti-government internet videos about the Jan. 6 attack.

Widely viewed photos and videos show Jensen confronting police and pursuing Capitol Police Officer Eugene Goodman up stairs inside the Capitol.

Capitol Breach QAnon Believer FILE - This photo provided by Polk County, Iowa Jail shows Douglas Jensen. “That said, he clearly disobeyed Officer Goodman and other officers, and he did position himself near the front of a mob as he ran up the stairs toward Officer Goodman," the judge said. Kelly noted that a video captured Jensen referring to the Capitol building as the White House. Few of the more than 500 people charged in the Capitol riot remain locked up while they fight the charges. The judge who ordered Timothy Hale-Cusanelli locked up pointed to his violent rhetoric and found him to be a threat to a government informant.

A federal judge has agreed to free an Iowa man from jail more than six months after his videotaped confrontation of a police officer inside the U.S. Capitol became one of the most menacing images of the Jan. 6 riots.

A federal judge agreed on Tuesday to free an Iowa man from jail more than six months after his videotaped confrontation of a police officer inside the U.S. Capitol became one of the most menacing images of the Jan. 6 riots. Douglas Jensen, 41, was wearing a T-shirt bearing the letter “Q,” a symbol of the QAnon conspiracy theory, when he joined the mob that approached Capitol police officer Eugene Goodman inside the building and followed the officer up two flights of stairs. U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said deciding whether to free Jensen from jail pending trial was a "close case," but he ultimately agreed to release the Des Moines resident on house arrest with electronic location monitoring.

“Mr. Chrestman was much more — much, much more — than someone who merely cheered on the violence or who entered the Capitol after others cleared the way,” the judge said.

Videos released earlier this week showed Donohoe was among a group of people who pushed against a line of officers on the east side of the Capitol.

A federal judge backed the Justice Department’s most aggressive effort to jail those accused of participating in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.

A federal judge has ordered two leaders of the far-right Proud Boys extremist group to be arrested and jailed while awaiting trial on charges they planned and coordinated an attack on the U.S. Capitol to stop the certification of Joe Biden’s electoral victory.

Tensions remain high between the U.S. and Iran amid President Donald Trump's maximalist pressure campaign over Tehran's nuclear program. In a ruling dated Thursday, the U.S. District Court in Washington found Iran owed Levinson's family $1.35 billion in punitive damages and $107 million in compensatory damages for his kidnapping. The court cited the case of Otto Warmbier, an American college student who died in 2017 shortly after being freed from captivity in North Korea, in deciding to award the massive amount of punitive damages to Levinson's family. In a statement, Levinson's family called the court's award “the first step in the pursuit of justice.”“Until now, Iran has faced no consequences for its actions,” the family said. In December 2013, the AP revealed Levinson in fact had been on a mission for CIA analysts who had no authority to run spy operations.

(CNN) - A federal judge in California late Wednesday issued a nationwide injunction against the Trump administration's new asylum rule that dramatically limits the ability of Central American migrants to claim asylum if they enter the US by land through Mexico. The ruling from US District Judge Jon Tigar, a Barack Obama nominee, came hours after another federal judge in Washington, DC, an appointee of President Donald Trump, had declined to block the rule. "This new rule is likely invalid because it is inconsistent with the existing asylum laws," Tigar wrote. The plaintiffs also argued that the rule harms their organization's ability to work with asylum seekers. The asylum rule immediately faced legal challenges last week.

The decision allows the Trump administration to implement for now its most ambitious effort yet to unilaterally overhaul the asylum system. Before the rule, migrants who crossed into the U.S. illegally were allowed to claim asylum after being apprehended by Border Patrol officers. Late last year, Tigar halted a similar effort by the administration to prohibit migrants who cross the border illegally from being able to seek asylum. Central American asylum seekers wait as U.S. Border Patrol agents take them into custody on June 12, 2018 near McAllen, Texas. The families were then sent to a U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) processing center for possible separation.

REUTERS/Veronica G. CardenasThe ACLU, which has filed suit to block numerous Trump immigration policies in court, vowed to challenge the expedited deportations as well. The Trump administration has had mixed results trying to implement its most restrictive immigration policies. But the legal challenges contend that Trump cannot force those migrants to apply for asylum elsewhere unless the United States has a safe third country agreement with that country. Slideshow (7 Images)The Trump administration had previously given Mexico until July 22 to significantly lower migration flows but the deadline passed without comment from Washington. Guatemala, another country that could be forced to process asylum claims of migrants headed for the United States, previously rejected U.S. entreaties on a similar deal.