Cleveland Meredith, charged with threatening to kill Pelosi and bringing guns + ammo to DC (but arri [View all]

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Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Cleveland Meredith, charged with threatening to kill Pelosi and bringing guns + ammo to DC (but arriving too late on Jan. 6 to join the insurrection), will remain in jail, per newly unsealed (and partially redacted) opinion from Judge Amy Berman Jackson: https://assets.documentcloud.org/documents/20790124/5-26-21-redacted-opinion-cleveland-meredith-detention.pdf






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Meredith's lawyer argued his threats weren't meant to be taken seriously; he wrote at one point: "LOL. I’m just having fun."

ABJ: "The problem with this argument, of course, is that defendant’s statements were not the least bit funny. No one was laughing out loud then or now."



Zoe Tillman
@ZoeTillman
Jackson did not come to play: "...six months later, the canard that the election was stolen is being repeated daily on major news outlets and from the corridors of power in state and federal government, not to mention in the near-daily fulminations of the former President"