Stories tagged: "Attack on the Capitol"
Peter Schwartz, who was working as a welder in Uniontown before his arrest in February 2021, received the longest prison sentence so far among hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
Robert Sanford, who worked as a firefighter for 26 years, struck two police officers in the head with a fire extinguisher that he threw as he stormed the Capitol with a mob of Donald Trump supporters.
During a Senate State Government Committee meeting, Dush ruled Democrat Amanda Cappelletti out of order for referring to the attack on the US Capitol as an insurrection, on the grounds that no one has yet specifically been charged with that offense.
Democracy didn’t die in Washington, DC on Jan. 6, 2021, despite the efforts of the 75 Pennsylvanians who have been arrested to date for participating in the deadly attack on the US Capitol.
As scrutiny increases on Doug Mastriano’s participation in the Jan. 6 insurrection and his efforts to overturn the 2020 election, new evidence suggests he was at the Capitol when things turned violent.
The first of six hearings revealed that former President Donald Trump’s daughter Ivanka accepted that the 2020 election wasn’t stolen, that multiple Republican members of Congress asked Trump for pardons after Jan. 6, and that Trump approved of his supporters chanting “Hang Mike Pence!”
The findings come as the US House Committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack will hold the first of six public hearings Thursday night in primetime. Sixty-five percent of voters support the House investigation, while only 28% oppose it, according to a new Courier Newsroom/Data for Progress poll.