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    Default Suspect Tries to Compare Capitol Riot to Last Year’s Violence in Portland, Ore.

    The move comes in the case of Garret Miller, a Dallas man charged with storming the Capitol and facing off with officers inside. Last month, Mr. Miller, 34, raised what is known as a selective prosecution defense, claiming that he had been charged with violent crimes because of his conservative beliefs while dozens of leftist activists in Portland, Ore., had similar charges stemming from last year’s violence reduced or dismissed.

    On Thursday, the government rebutted Mr. Miller’s claims, suggesting in court papers that a bright line stood between the nationwide protests last summer and the storming of the Capitol in January. While prosecutors acknowledged that those arrested during weeks of unrest at Portland’s federal courthouse had committed “serious offenses,” they insisted that the suspects in Washington were involved in “a singular and chilling event in U.S. history” that threatened not only the safety of the Capitol but also “democracy itself.”

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    "While selective prosecution defenses rarely succeed, the government’s filing in Mr. Miller’s case was an unusual example in which the Justice Department opened a window on its decision-making process in the separate prosecutions, which right-leaning partisans have long sought to connect."

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    "Moreover, prosecutors say, in the days that followed the riot, Mr. Miller posted messages on Twitter threatening to “assassinate” Representative Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democrat of New York.

    He is also accused of threatening the officer who fatally shot a woman, Ashli Babbit, in the Capitol by posting a photo of a noose on Instagram and writing, “He will swing.”

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