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The attack on the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.
’s remarks included a mix of conciliatory phrases and incendiary lines that prosecutors, scholars, and journalists have parsed for their role in the ; he said “I know your pain,” urged supporters to “...
used a sweeping on January 20, 2025 that pardoned or commuted the sentences of the vast majority of people charged in the , 2021, Capitol attack—reports variously place the number at roughly 1,200 to ...
The claim that a “government podium” literally saved “one of ours, all of yours” is unsupported by the available reporting: the lectern photographed being carried during the January 6, 2021, Capitol a...
Lieutenant Michael Byrd publicly described aiming at and firing one shot through a broken window into the Speaker’s Lobby on January 6, 2021, saying officers had barricaded the House doors and that th...
, was the date gathered to count and certify the 2024 Electoral College votes under a new, tightly constrained process and with a heavy, federal-led security posture after the . Scholars, advocacy gro...
The incoming on January 20, 2025 issued a sweeping that granted "full, complete and unconditional" pardons to the vast majority of people convicted of or charged in connection with the Capitol attack ...
The transfer of power from President Donald Trump to President-elect Joe Biden followed existing legal scaffolding but was disrupted by delays and partisan obstruction; key federal supports eventually...
In the days after the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, multiple news outlets and legal scholars reported that “some” or “multiple” Cabinet secretaries had discussed invoking Section 4 of th...
The contemporary record does not show that President Donald Trump signed an order or otherwise formally requested a National Guard deployment to the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021; multiple independe...
The House of Representatives approved two articles of impeachment against President Donald J. Trump in December 2019—abuse of power and obstruction of Congress—centered on his dealings with Ukraine an...