January 6 "was a national embarrassment", says ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is speaking now ahead of his sentencing in Washington’s federal courthouse for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack. US district judge Timothy Kelly is speaking in the Washington court before the sentencing of former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio. During his statement to the court, former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio appeared emotional. January 6 "was a national embarrassment", says ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio is speaking now ahead of his sentencing in Washington’s federal courthouse for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack. Enrique Tarrio, the former Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy for his role in the January 6 Capitol attack, is poised to speak in federal court. New York attorney general asks judge to sanction Trump over ‘frivolous’ arguments The attorney general of New York state is seeking $20,000 in sanctions against Donald Trump, his adult sons, other defendants and their lawyers, for repeating “frivolous” arguments rejected in court in a $250m civil suit over family business practices. In a filing on Tuesday, Andrew Amer, an assistant to Letitia James, the attorney general, noted repeated rejections of arguments deemed “borderline frivolous even the first time defendants made them”. Amer also noted a previous observation by the judge in the case that “reading [the] defendants’ brief ‘was, to quote the baseball sage [Yogi] Berra, deja vu all over again’.” Berra was a New York Yankees catcher and manager whose garbled sayings – also including “It ain’t over till it’s over” and “You can observe a lot by watching” – somehow seemed to make sense. James thinks she has made sense of how defendants including Donald Trump, Donald Trump Jr and Eric Trump played fast and loose with both the true state of the former president’s finances and with New York corporate law. Last week, filings in an attempt to resolve the case without trial showed prosecutors’ contention that annually between 2011 and 2021 Trump inflated his net worth by between $812m and $2.2bn. The judge has not ruled on that filing. Trial is set for October. In the filing on Tuesday, James’s assistant also noted the judge’s ability to impose financial penalties for conduct deemed frivolous if because without merit in law or pursued to delay a case. The judge presiding over the Georgia election subversion case has announced he will hold a hearing tomorrow to decide two of the 19 defendants’ requests to be tried separately. Kenneth Chesebro and Sidney Powell were both attorneys for Donald Trump’s campaign during the period when he tried to stop Joe Biden from taking office, even though the Democrat won the 2020 election. Powell and Chesebro have both filed motions demanding their trial be resolved quickly and separately, and Lawfare reports a judge will consider their request tomorrow: Fulton county district attorney Fani Willis wants to try all 19 defendants, including Trump, together, while the former president and several of the other defendants are seeking ways to postpone their trials, including by arguing they should be held in federal court. The sentencing hearing of Enrique Tarrio is ongoing in Washington DC, with federal prosecutors making their case for why the former Proud Boys militia group leader should face a stiff jail term, Vice News reports: The Senate is back in session today for the first time since late July, and in remarks on the floor, the chamber’s top Republican alluded to his health scare last week. Mitch McConnell appeared temporarily unable to speak when taking questions from reporters, the second similar incident the 81-year-old has suffered in as many months. Earlier this year, he fell and sustained a concussion that kept him away from Capitol Hill for about six weeks. The Kentucky lawmaker has generally downplayed the incidents and said he is fine to continue serving, and earlier today, the Capitol physician said there was no evidence that McConnell had suffered a stroke or seizure last week. A judge has granted a motion to postpone a hearing in congressman and admitted fabulist George Santos’s federal fraud and money laundering case, the Messenger reports. The hearing was supposed to take place on Thursday, but will instead happen on 27 October amid potential signs the New York Republican is trying to negotiate a plea agreement with federal prosecutors: Federal judge Tim Kelly has ruled that the terrorism enhancement will be applied to Enrique Tarrio’s sentence, Politico report, a sign that he could potentially face a long jail sentence: Sentencing begins for ex-Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio The sentencing hearing has begun in Washington DC for Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys militia group who was found guilty of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for his role in the January 6 insurrection. Prosecutors have recommended that Tarrio receive a 33-year jail term, but it will be up to federal judge Tim Kelly to decide. Vice News has updates from inside the courtroom as Tarrio’s lawyer argue for a lesser sentence: