Jan 6 Praying Grandmother

Known on social media as the “J6 Praying Grandma”, 71 year old Rebecca Lavrenz was convicted by a hand-picked liberal D.C. Jury on four federal misdemeanor charges for her 10 minute presence at the US Capitol on January 6, 2021. According to court records, Rebecca entered the Capitol at approximately 2:43 p.m. and exited the building at approximately 2:53 p.m. and charged with disorderly conduct in the Capitol, entering and remaining in a restricted building, disorderly and disruptive conduct inside a restricted building, and parading or picketing in the Capitol, according to court documents.

In an interview with the Gazette News, Rebecca said that she felt led by God to drive across the country to attend the January 6, 2021 ‘Stop the Steal’ rally to protest the 2020 presidential election. She was quoted as saying, “The whole reason I went to the Capitol was to pray. I didn’t get into this for myself. I was there to stand up for my country. God led me to go there and into the building to stand up for my First Amendment rights to petition the government for a redress of grievances. [And I] felt God’s presence on me.”

Just prior to her trial, Rebecca Lavrenz stated on a social media video made in D.C. near the Capitol, “My own country is treating me like a criminal just because I believe that they stole my rightful president. And just standing up for my country makes me a criminal, and it’s not right. It feels so weird to be here.”

Rebecca went on to tell state to the Gazette, "God wanted it to turn out this way so my voice could be amplified. We have to wake up our country.” In the article by the Gazette the report stated that “if Lavrenz had been acquitted, she would have been the first Jan. 6 defendant to have been”.

President Trump was outraged by the conviction, and posted his disgust on Truth Social stating: “Rebecca Lavrez, also known as the ‘J6 Praying Grandma,’ has been unfairly targeted by Crooked Joe Biden’s DOJ, and now faces up to 1 YEAR in prison for peacefully walking around the Capitol, and praying for our Failing Nation on January 6th!” He went on to say, “Crooked Joe Biden spends more time prosecuting Patriots like Rebecca, AND ME, than Violent Criminals, Thugs, Murderers, and ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTS who are destroying our Country.”

It was reported by the Western Journal that, “The Department of Justice said in a news release at the time more than 1,265 defendants had been charged in nearly all 50 states and D.C. Of these, 1,186 had been charged with entering a restricted area.” The report went on to quote a DOJ official who stated: “Approximately 749 federal defendants have had their cases adjudicated and received sentences for their criminal activity on Jan. 6. Approximately 467 have been sentenced to periods of incarceration."

In the same report, the Western Journal opinion states that, “Anyone concerned with fairness in our justice system and the direction the Biden DOJ is going should identify with Trump’s concerns and sympathize with Lavrenz. The fact that the DOJ is willing to go after an elderly woman for praying is absolutely terrifying. For the DOJ, this is not about fairness or uploading the rule of law. They are weaponized and completely biased against anyone supporting Trump”.

The U.S. Supreme Court is currently hearing the case known as Fischer v. U.S. Fisher was a Pennsylvania police officer who attended the January 6, 2021 rally and states that he was pushed by the crowd into a police line, remained in the Capitol for less than four minutes. Fisher was charged with a seven-count indictment in 2021 and brought the case before the Supreme Court.

The issue before the U.S. Supreme Court is whether federal prosecutors can apply the 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act, a law passed in response to the Enron scandal, to the January 6th rally defendants. Defense attorney Green, urged the Supreme Court Justices to reject the Justice Department's broad use of the law. The Department of Justice is strategically using this law to encompass and broadly prosecute US Citizens for attending a rally in a peaceful yet chaotic protest which is protected by the Constitution.

It has been reported that Chief Justice John Roberts and Justice Thomas questioned whether the DOJ has applied this statute in other cases. Justice Roberts said: “There have been many violent protests that have interfered with proceedings. Has the government applied this provision to other protests in the past and has this been the government position throughout the lifespan of the statute?" The three liberal justices are of course supporting the charges while the Conservative Justices raised several questions about the scope of these statute being applied in this case and whether it would criminalize all protests. If the Supreme Court finds in favor of the Defendant, this could reopen hundreds of cases in which January 6, 2021 protestors have been found guilty of obstructing an official proceeding which can carry a prison sentence up to 20 years.