A former Army Ranger and teacher from the Pittsburgh area who's charged with assaulting police during the Capitol insurrection will not be getting out of jail pending his joint trial in the District of Columbia with a group of other pro-Trump rioters charged with felony violence.
Robert Morss of Glenshaw — one of two dozen Western Pennsylvanians accused of storming the Capitol in support of former President Donald Trump's false claims that the election was "stolen" from him — had argued that he should be released because of government delays in the discovery process.
But U.S. District Judge Trevor McFadden said last week that those delays can't be helped because Morss is being tried with eight others, all of whom are accused of acting in concert to attack law officers inside a Capitol tunnel.
