Former President Trump can be sued for role in January 6 attack on Capitol, federal judge rules.
,"the first-ever presidential transfer of power marred by violence," a federal judge in Washington, D.C., ruled Friday.
They allege Trump and his political allies conspired to prevent Congress from performing the necessary task of certifying the 2020 presidential election and the extremist groups aided in the execution of that conspiracy. The former president contended that in his January 6 speech, he was acting in his capacity as president in an attempt to affect Congress's certification of the Electoral College votes and is therefore not responsible for any of the damage from the rioting that took place after his speech. He was not conspiring to commit a crime, his lawyers argued, but acting as president of the United States.
Based on the evidence provided, Mehta said that it is reasonable to assume that when Trump called on his supporters to march the Capitol and"fight like Hell,""he did so with the goal of disrupting lawmakers' efforts to certify the Electoral college votes." Mehta did, however, reject Swalwell's claim that the former president should be held liable for not exercising his presidential powers to stop the riot.
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