Two Capitol Hill police officers are suing to block the funds for the January 6th compensation funds. First thing I think of when I read that is, who paid these guys to do it? Two guys, two officers. Not the union, not 10, not 20, but two. Anybody in Washington, D.C. knows what happened on January 6th. They know. They know it was political. They know it was instigated. They know it wasn't actually that violent. And they know the police were in on it. They were in on it. We know this. Everybody in Washington, D.C. knows this. There's no one in that police force that doesn't understand what happened there. So, someone put these two officers up to it. That being said, what do they have standing, so to speak, in such a case? Where is the legal precedent to say cops doing their job have a right to say anything about anything after... Like, look, they were doing their job illegally. Who cares? They're doing their job legally. Who cares? They did their job. They are not jury, judge, and executioner. All they're gonna do is their job. I've never heard of a cop getting involved with the decisions of courts, with the decisions of the legislation. I think this is a perfect example of using the court system as some sort of personal preference enforcement....
I framed like this thru chatgtp5 ..
Imagine an officer restrains a suspect during an arrest. The suspect is injured, charged, and later sues or appeals. A court eventually finds that the suspect’s rights were violated and awards compensation. The officer cannot then come back and say, “Because I was involved in that arrest, I now have standing to sue and block the compensation.” That is not how standing works.
The officer was a participant in the event, not the legal owner of the suspect’s constitutional claim. Once a court or legislature decides compensation is owed, the officer does not get a veto merely because he dislikes the result or feels morally offended by it.
That seems like the same problem here. These officers may have been present on January 6. They may have had a terrible experience. They may personally hate the idea of any January 6 defendant receiving money. But their participation in the event does not automatically give them legal standing to block compensation paid to someone else.
Standing requires a direct, concrete injury. “I was there,” “I was affected emotionally,” or “I disagree with the government paying these people” should not be enough. Otherwise every police officer, prosecutor, witness, jailer, or government employee connected to a controversial case could run into court afterward and try to relitigate the outcome.
