Elliot Resnick, former Jewish Press editor, pleads guilty to Jan. 6 felony

WASHINGTON (JTA) — Elliot Resnick, the onetime editor of a Jewish newspaper who claimed that he was at the Capitol riot to cover it, pleaded guilty Tuesday to a felony charge for joining the attackers and obstructing a police officer.

“Did you do what the government stated?” U.S. District Judge Rudolph Contreras asked the former editor of the Jewish Press who stood, subdued, alongside his lawyer in the courtroom, a 10-minute walk away from the Capitol he and hundred of other rioters besieged on Jan. 6, 2021 in a bid to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential…