(Bloomberg) -- Leaders of the right-wing Proud Boys group who participated in the Jan. 6 insurrection signaled they’ll challenge conspiracy charges by arguing that “hundreds or thousands” of other rioters also coordinated activity that day and weren’t hit with such serious allegations. Defendants including Ethan Nordean, who led Washington state’s Proud Boys chapter, should be allowed to seek evidence from the U.S. Justice Department to determine if people associated with unpopular groups are being singled out for harsher treatment, defense attorney David Benjamin Smith said Tuesday at a virtual hearing in federal court in Washington, D.C. The First Amendment protects...
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