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Federal prosecutions tied to the January 6 Capitol attack
The claim that ’s administration is ’s rise to power requires parsing rhetoric, tactics, structural moves, and ideology—a comparison many commentators and scholars make in part but also dispute in imp...
Political leaders’ accusations that protests are driven by “paid agitators” have a long rhetorical history and often function as a delegitimizing trope, but empirical investigations have produced a mi...
There are no confirmed, publicly released ICE personnel records in the provided reporting that show federal employees explicitly listed as Proud Boys members; reporting documents allegations, requests...
Seditious conspiracy is a rarely used federal crime that makes it unlawful for two or more people to conspire to use force to overthrow, oppose, or obstruct the execution of U.S. law, punishable by up...
A broad presidential clemency in January 2025 wiped away convictions or commuted sentences for the vast majority of people prosecuted for the January 6 Capitol attack, but reporting and public records...
anchored the conspiracy counts in the indictment on a mosaic of evidentiary threads: a chronology of false public statements and social-media activity from , internal communications and contacts with ...
Section 4 of the Twenty-Fifth Amendment has never been invoked in U.S. history; it remains an unused constitutional mechanism for removing a president deemed unable to discharge the powers and duties ...
Seditious conspiracy is a statutory crime that criminalizes an agreement to use force to overthrow or oppose U.S. authority, while insurrection refers to the act of rising up or engaging in rebellion ...
have most commonly relied on the assault-and-impeding statute, 18 U.S.C. §111, to charge protesters who have physically confronted or interfered with federal agents; more sweeping charges—like rebelli...
The weight of the evidence shows that January 6 defendants were by and large arrested, charged and moved through the federal criminal process—dozens were tried, hundreds pleaded guilty and many have b...