Looking for the Helpers – Nicole Sandler Show 1-23-25

When it rains, it pours! This was one of those days. But I’m in Arizona where it hasn’t rained in many months. So, figuratively speaking…

As you probably know if you’ve listened to this show for a while, I do everything. I’m a one-woman shop here. One of my biggest challenges has been keeping my studio and equipment (meaning computers) working right. I have gremlins who occasionally leave me alone, but they’ve been back in force lately.

Today I hooked up my main computer again after having it in the shop for a while. And it didn’t want to cooperate. And then Howie Klein had to cancel his appearance today.

But we made it through. Barely!

The things that helped most were the few stories I was able to share that showed a little sunshine sneaking in through the dark clouds that have hovered over us since the election, but most awfully over the last four days.

Thankfully some of those bright spots are in the Judiciary. U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan and U.S. District Court Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly all pushed back forcefully on the convicted felon’s pardons of violent J6 insurrectionists. Judge Howell stated that

“No ‘national injustice’ occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election,” she explained. “No ‘process of national reconciliation’ can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity. That merely raises the dangerous specter of future lawless conduct by other poor losers and undermines the rule of law. Yet, this presidential pronouncement of a ‘national injustice’ is the sole justification provided in the government’s motion to dismiss the pending indictment.

“Having presided over scores of criminal cases charging defendants for their criminal conduct both outside and inside the U.S. Capitol Building on January 6, 2021, which charges were fully supported by evidence in the form of extensive videotapes and photographs, admissions by defendants in the course of plea hearings and in testimony at trials, and the testimony of law enforcement officers and congressional staff present at the Capitol on that day, this Court cannot let stand the revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement. The prosecutions in this case and others charging defendants for their criminal conduct at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021, present no injustice, but instead reflect the diligent work of conscientious public servants, including prosecutors and law enforcement officials, and dedicated defense attorneys, to defend our democracy and rights and preserve our long tradition of peaceful transfers of power — which, until January 6, 2021, served as a model to the world — all while affording those charged every protection guaranteed by our Constitution and the criminal justice system.

“As to these two defendants specifically, both admitted their criminal conduct under oath, after consultation with their attorneys, and pursuant to plea agreements to which they agreed. Bluntly put, the assertion offered in the presidential pronouncement for the pending motion to dismiss is flatly wrong.”

Although she didn’t have the power to defy the pardon order, she was able – and did-do it without prejudice, meaning that the case CAN be brought back at some future point.

Also too, a judge in Seattle – a Ronald Reagan appointee, no less – found that Twitler’s attempt to remove the constitutional right of Birthright Citizenship from existence to be unconstitutional.

 NBC News reported:

https://www.youtube.com/live/l6OMvcCcl4c