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The Ku Klux Klan Act has been invoked in cases related to the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Jake Lang was federally charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with a multi‑count indictment that accused him of assaulting officers with a baseball bat and other o...
There is no publicly available, verifiable evidence that a known cohort of January 6 rioters has been confirmed and published as newly hired ICE agents; instead, multiple Democratic members of Congres...
Calls to invoke the 25th Amendment have repeatedly surfaced during moments of intense partisan and public concern about a president’s fitness — most recently in multiple episodes cited by lawmakers an...
Yes — based on a sustained mix of official actions, messaging and policy choices, the Trump administration is actively trying to change the public narrative about January 6, 2021: it has produced an o...
Publicly available federal court records for Edward Jacob “Jake” Lang show an arrest, a sealed complaint and affidavit, a formal indictment, pretrial motions including a defense bail request and the g...
There is no public, documented proof that a wave of January 6 rioters have been systematically hired as ICE agents, but members of Congress are actively investigating whether any pardoned or convicted...
Congressional Democrats have opened a formal inquiry into whether the Department of Homeland Security and Immigration and Customs Enforcement have hired people tied to the January 6, 2021 attack, incl...
The January 6 Select Committee treated social media as both a catalyst for the Capitol attack and a trove of probative evidence, concluding that former President Donald Trump’s online messages amplifi...
The federal criminal case charging Donald J. Trump for efforts to overturn the 2020 election through the January 6 events is not an active, pending prosecution in Washington, D.C.; the indictment that...
There is no publicly documented, verifiable evidence in the reporting provided that January 6 rioters have already been systematically hired as ICE agents; instead, congressional Democrats have launch...
The Ku Klux Klan Act (the Enforcement Act of 1871) criminalizes conspiracies to deprive people of constitutional rights and authorizes federal intervention where states fail to protect those rights, w...
Right‑wing extremism in the United States increased after 2020 for a mix of proximate triggers and deeper drivers: amplified online recruitment and coordination, the political turmoil around the 2020 ...
President Trump issued a sweeping clemency on January 20, 2025 that pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500–1,600 people charged in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, a move h...
There is no evidence in the provided reporting that then‑Speaker Nancy Pelosi gave televised interviews or appeared on live broadcast feeds during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol; the ...
Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment — the constitutional mechanism that allows the vice president and a majority of the president’s principal officers (or another body Congress might create) to de...
Rep. Jamie Raskin’s January 13, 2026 letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi and DHS Secretary Kristi Noem seeks a broad set of personnel and recruiting records to determine whether people charged, inves...
Rep. Jamie Raskin sent a formal records demand on January 12–13, 2026 asking DOJ and DHS for hiring and personnel records, internal communications, and policy documents related to the recruitment or e...
Available reporting from the Government Accountability Office shows an extensive GAO examination of January 6 planning, response and Capitol Police management issues, but the documents and articles pr...
The House of Representatives adopted a single article of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump in January 2021 charging him with "incitement of insurrection" for his role in the events surroun...