Democrats eager to jail Jan. 6 rioters once shielded radicals who bombed the U.S. Capitol in 1983

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Washington Times

Attorney General Merrick Garland, who has boasted of arresting and convicting hundreds of people who rioted in the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, signed off on dismissing the charges and quashing the arrest warrant for a woman accused of detonating a bomb near the Senate chamber in 1983.

Elizabeth A. Duke jumped bail nearly four decades ago and has never been captured and prosecuted for the Capitol bombing, nor has she faced charges in connection with the bombing of the Navy Yard and Fort McNair or a plot to bomb other federal buildings, among them the Old Executive Office Building next to the White House and the Naval Academy in Annapolis, Maryland.

 

Democrats helped Ms. Duke get her case tossed in 2009, and Mr. Garland later signed off on the move.

 

Democrats also helped free two other women, Susan Lisa Rosenberg and Linda Sue Evans. With Ms. Duke, they were left-wing terrorists associated with the Weather Underground and the May 19th Communist Organization. They were charged with involvement in bombing the Capitol and the other federal buildings.

Some of the people who worked to lessen their punishment are now pursuing one of the biggest federal prosecutions in history against the Jan. 6 rioters who pushed their way into the Capitol to protest the certification of Joseph R. Biden’s electoral win over President Trump.

 

Democrats also condemned Mr. Trump for vowing to pardon Jan. 6 rioters if he wins another White House term in November.

“In terms of the double standard, here’s an actual bombing of the Senate chamber,” said Paul Kamenar, counsel for the National Legal and Policy Center. “The Jan. 6 protest had some windows broken and things like that. But a bomb wasn’t set off.”