Calhoun made the abhorrent claims in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution.
They don’t want to lose their democratic republic.”. Calhoun said the worst criminal act he committed was “trespassing, ” which he did for the “love of his country.”. Georgia State University law professor Clark Cunningham shared a more realistic legal definition with the newspaper.
They knew the Congress was convened to do perhaps the most important thing a Congress can do: preside over the peaceful transfer of power from one president to another.”. Sedition is punishable by 20 years in prison.
Calhoun made the abhorrent claims in an interview with the Atlanta Journal-Constitution. When asked about his sharing of a doctored photo of Joe Biden that referenced hanging the president-elect, Calhoun told the outlet, “Trump voters say that all the time,” he said. “We’re just ornery.”.
Trial lawyer and former federal prosecutor Neama Rahmani explained: "The government can and should identify and prosecute everyone who unlawfully entered the Capitol building.
The aftermath of the riots saw rioters leaving feces, urine, trash and shattered windows along vandalized offices. It saw five people dead, including a Capitol Police officer. Calhoun defended his act saying the attackers acted “heroically" and were actually like “tourists”.
At the moment, there is no official confirmation or any update about the charges against Calhoun. Although the New York Post does mention that sedition is punishable by 20 years in prison, neither the site nor AJC, which broke the news, has any information about Calhoun's future. MEAWW spoke to a few former prosecutors who had shed light on the legal action that would be taken against the rioters if they're prosecuted.
In the days since the attempted coup staged by Trump’s supporters in Washington, D.C., lawyers and lawmakers have been identified as members of the mob that broke into the U.S. Capitol, and the consequences have been quite severe. An in-house attorney lost his job, and a lawmaker resigned after being charged with a crime.
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Calhoun, a practicing attorney in Americus for 30 years, admitted his participation in the riot in an exclusive interview with the AJC in which he described the mob as patriotic and heroic.
When hundreds of pro-Trump protesters stunned and horrified the nation by forcing their way into the United States Capitol Wednesday, self-described “Anti-Communist Counter-Revolutionary” McCall Calhoun was among the first through the doors.