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tions. He noted that a judge
eventually overturned the crimi-
nal convictions of a central figure
in the latter arms-for-hostages
scandal, retired Marine Lt. Col.
Oliver North, because he had
been given immunity to testify
before Congress.
“The legislature is independ-
ent from the judiciary; they fol-
low their own needs and require-
ments,” Hogan said.
On Friday, Howell joined all
judges who have ruled so far in
dismissing a request to move
Williams’s trial, saying careful
juror vetting can weed out bias,
as seen by an initial handful of
trials held to date in Jan. 6 cases.
Howell said it is “offensive” to
suggest that Democratic jurors
will be less fair than Republican
ones, that people in Williams’s
native eastern Michigan are “less
sophisticated” or pay less atten-
tion to the news than those in
D.C., or that jurors will be unable
to focus on individuals’ conduct
instead of their political beliefs.the defense in another Jan. 6 case
to file motions seeking relief as
there was “a legitimate concern”
regarding how the House hear-
ings might affect defendants.
An attorney for Ryan Nichols, a
Texas man accused of assaulting
police with chemical spray at the
Lower West Terrace tunnel, said
the video montage played during
Thursday’s hearing gave “a one-
sided narrative ... casting the
people that were there that day in
the worst light possible” and
would “indoctrinate” the jury
pool.
Nichols asked to be released
from an order barring public
disclosure of evidence turned
over by the government. Nichols’s
defense did not say what it would
like to release. All of the video
exhibits he has entered, including
hours of footage from the riot, is
already in the public record.
Hogan, a 1982 Ronald Reagan
appointee, noted that similar
conflicts arose during the Water-
gate and Iran-contra investiga-LOCAL DIGESTMARYLAND
Conviction upheld in
officer’s killing
Maryland’s highest court has
upheld the murder conviction
and life sentence for a man who
was 16 years old when he fatally
struck a Baltimore County
police officer with a vehicle.
The Maryland Court of
Appeals rejected defense
attorneys’ argument that it was
unconstitutional to sentence
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because he was a minor when
he killed the officer in 20 18.
The court ruled on Wednesday
that Harris’s age was properly
considered when a judge
sentenced him to life in prison
with the possibility of parole.
The Baltimore Sun reports
that Harris, now 20, was driving
a stolen Jeep when Baltimore
County Police Officer Amy
Caprio blocked its path with her
patrol car and ordered him to
stop. She fired her weapon once
before he struck her with the
car.
Harris and three other
teenagers had been burglarizing
homes before the confrontation.
Defense attorney Megan
Coleman argued that Harris had
been too young to “appreciate
the risks and consequences” of
his actions.
In 201 2, the U.S. Supreme
Court ruled that mandatory life
sentences without parole were
unconstitutional for children
convicted of homicides. The
Maryland appeals court said
that ruling didn’t apply in
Harris’s case since he will be
eligible for parole after 15 years.
— Associated PressVIRGINIAMotorcyclist killed in
crash in WoodbridgeA motorcycle driver was
killed Friday night in a collision
with an SUV at an intersection
in Woodbridge in PrinceWilliam County, according to
police.
The crash occurred shortly
before 9:30 p.m. at Neabsco
Mills Road and Smoke Court,
north of Northern Virginia
Community College.
Prince William County police
identified the driver of the 2016
Honda motorcycle as Ricky
Raiseem Whittington, 40, of
Woodbridge. He was
pronounced dead at the scene.
Authorities said he was wearing
a helmet.
Police said Whittington was
driving west on Neabsco Mills
Road and struck a 2004 Lexus
crossover SUV whose driver was
turning off Neabsco Mills onto
Smoke Court. Police said the
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The 31-year-old driver of the
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Officials said the investigation
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— Peter Hermannof further televised hearings this
month has alarmed attorneys for
some individual criminal defen-
dants charged in the rioting.
Several have asked to delay or
move their trials, claiming that
potential jurors in the nation’s
capital are hopelessly tainted by
pretrial publicity; voted over-
whelmingly for President Biden;
or are prejudiced because they
experienced that day’s events as
victims.
Attorneys for five key figures of
the right-wing Proud Boys group
escalated their criticism this
week, saying the timing of new
charges of seditious conspiracy
against them and Thursday’s
hearing in which Cheney singled
out the group as having “led the
invasion” appear to have been
politically orchestrated.
U. S. District Judge Timothy J.
Kelly, a 20 17 Trump appointee
who is presiding over the case of
defendants including former
longtime Proud Boys chairman
Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, called
such a claim “unwarranted” but
said he is considering or would
consider motions to move or
delay an Aug. 8 trial.
Separately Friday, U.S. District
Judge Thomas F. Hogan invited(D-Miss.) and Liz Cheney (R-
Wyo.) made the case Thursday
night a s chairman and vice chair-
woman of the House panel that
the assault on Congress was the
violent culmination of an at-
tempted coup by Tr ump to violate
his constitutional duty to relin-
quish office.
Tr ump provoked the violence
on Jan. 6 and did nothing to stop
it for hours, Thompson and
Cheney argued, after overseeing
and coordinating for months a
multistep plan to overturn the
presidential election. Tr ump
sought to throw out the votes of
millions of American and substi-
tute his will for the will of the
voters in claiming repeatedly
without evidence that fraud
changed the outcome, they said.
Howell noted that lawmakers
said planning leading up to Jan. 6
began weeks earlier. Cheney said
one “pivotal moment” came on
Dec. 19, 2020, after a White
House meeting among Tr ump
and adviser Michael Flynn, attor-
neys Sidney Powell and Rudy
Giuliani and others, when Tr ump
tweeted, referring to Jan. 6, “Be
there, will be Wild!”
The House’s two-hour presen-
tation Thursday and the promisecoverage” and cited the “very real
difference in the number of peo-
ple [in Washington] who will
watch knowing this was in their
backyard, versus in Michigan.”
“This might be the best time
for defendants charged with of-
fensive conduct on January 6
inside the Capitol building to be
having their trials, when the
House select committee is laying
out a scenario — I’m surmising
from what they’re anticipating —
that the persons accountable are
the former president and his
close associates, and that they
had been planning this for weeks
prior to January 2021,” Howell
said.
Williams has pleaded not
guilty to one felony count of
obstructing congressional certifi-
cation of the 2020 presidential
election results and four misde-
meanor trespassing and disor-
derly conduct charges after alleg-
edly explaining in social media
posts and videos why and how he
overcame police and briefly occu-
pied the Rotunda.
Howell, a 2010 appointee of
President Barack Obama, spoke
after Reps. Bennie G. Thompson
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Jan. 6 hearings may help riot defendants
shift accountability to Trump, judge says
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washingtonpost.com/local/lotteryLOTTERIES“Just keep it to socks, y'all. That's
all we can recycle at this time.”)
The old socks aren’t turned
into new ones, but into carpet
padding for the automotive
industry. You can find
information at zkano.com/pages/
zkano-recycles.
Marta put the word out via her
neighborhood message group,
and in March she sent two boxes
— weighing more than 30
pounds — to Zkano. Another 10
pounds of clean, usable socks
went to Goodwill. Now that’s
some fancy footwork.single shoe, do we?)
And it can apply to things like
screws, scraps of wood, extra
fabric and other materials that
we keep around just in case. We
don’t know for sure that the
irregular piece of drywall
leaning against the basement
wall will ever be needed, we just
know if it is needed, and we
don’t have it, we’ll be bereft.
What’s the longest you’ve held
onto something in the hope that
its lost mate would turn up?
What stories of amazing
reunions do you have? Or bitter
disappointments? Send them —
with “Lost” in the subject line —
to me at
[email protected].Sock it to me
Speaking of socks, lost or
otherwise, earlier this year
Marta Vogel led a sock drive in
her North Bethesda
neighborhood. She’d heard of a
textile company in Alabama
called Zkano that not only makes
new socks but recycles old ones,
keeping them out of landfills.
“We accept any type of socks,
from any brand, and you don't
have to be a customer to send
them to us,” the company
explains on its website. (It adds:I kept that surviving sock for a
year, hoping for a miraculous
recovery of its MIA partner. It
was a sad day when I finally
consigned it to the trash.
Fortunately for my psyche, the
other sock never showed up.
I suppose the same thing
applies to other paired objects:
earrings, bookends, shoes.
(Though we never seem to lose asocks. One day, only one emerged
from the dryer. Where was its
loyal companion, the Jeeves to
its Wooster, the Abbott to its
Costello, the Sonny to its Cher?
Lost through a loose seam in
the fabric of time and space, I
suppose. Or possibly in a Texas
hotel room, the last place I
remember seeing the two socks
together.keep an eye on you and your
sock(s).
“Oh, he finally threw it away,”
the universe says. “Now I can
stick the missing sock at the back
of his sock drawer.”
Socks are important to Dan.
He’s kept a pair of his son
Conor’s cartoon Arthur the
Aardvark socks since Conor was- Conor is 29 now. Dan has a
solitary violet baby sock once
worn by his 31-year-old daughter,
Molly , hoping against hope that
its mate — which for three
decades has been, as he says,
“languishing in the cold case
file” — will reappear.
“Hence, my attachment to my
own misplaced sock, outstanding
in a set now of seven others,”
wrote Dan, of Silver Spring. “All
these lost in a house full of
possessions so cherished that we
couldn’t part with them u nder
any circumstances. Hence, our
starter house will now be our
finisher house, since we know
any kind of move would require
divestment on a par with the
parable of the rich man.”
I still pine for a wondrous pair
of striped socks I bought at a
bespoke shoe store in Oxford. I
couldn’t afford the custom shoes,
but I could afford a few pairs of
Dan Wallace
jokes that his
house is “one pile
away” from being
a suitable setting
for a cable
hoarder show.
He’s joking, I’m
sure.
But Dan
touches on a
quandary many of us face: We
don’t want to get rid of
something we might need, even
if that something has been
rendered useless.
Or temporarily useless. For
example, more than a year ago
the two components in a pair of
Dan’s socks were cruelly
separated. The dilemma: If Dan
believes he will never see the lost
sock again, he should throw the
remaining sock away. But what if
he chucks it out and one day the
missing sock reappears?
Dan would doubtless drop to
his knees — the prodigal sock in
one hand — and scream to the
heavens, “Whyyyyyyyyy?”
And, of course, isn’t that just
the sort of thing the universe
would do? Isn’t that the way the
universe works? You’d think the
universe would have its hands
full, but somehow it manages to
It’s hard to part with a lost sock’s mate — and other items we keep, just in case
John
Kelly's
Washington
DAVID C. KENNEDY FOR THE WASHINGTON POST
Distinctive socks such as these aren’t of much use if one of the pair
goes missing, but for some, hope of rediscovery springs eternal.BY MARTIN WEILNot even a day in mid-June
need be perfect. Saturday might
have seemed perfectly c loudy,
with an overcast that seemed
impregnable. But that was not the
whole story.
Clouds did seem to cover Satur-
day’s sky, from horizon to hori-
zon, in every place, at all hours.
And, now and then, to enhance
the sensation of d reariness, rain
did drip from the grayness.
Yet scrutiny of our overhead
environment revealed moments
of sunshine. Occasionally, t he
June sun beamed through.
F or brief intervals the movie of
our day seemed transformed into
a full color production.
Few as they were, those brief
instants seemed to demonstrate
the meaning of June and its abili-
ty t o infuse brightness, glitter and
dazzle into lives and landscapes.
I n the meantime, the almost
constant clouds helped create a
day of uncommon coolness.
A s of 5 p.m., the high tempera-
ture amounted to 73 degrees. But
that could deceive. In a r eversal of
the normal order of things, the
high reading came at 12:44 a.m.
R ather than at such a dark
early morning hour, it is normally
late afternoon when we reach the
day’s thermal pinnacle.But on Saturday, we spent
many daytime hours in the upper
60 s. Those readings fell well be-
low the average June 11 high of 84.
It gave a surprising feel to
Saturday. Cloudy or clear, days
with highs of 73 come seldom at
this time of year.
In fact, unless exceeded in the
late hours, Saturday’s 73-degree
high would stamp the day as our
coolest in more than two weeks.
N ot since May 26 have we had a
high so low as 73.
Notably, we flouted the averag-
es at a t ime when the temperature
trend is in the opposite direction:
up and up, toward the searing
heights of sweltering summer.THE DISTRICT
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