Read today's latest news on the topic insurrection: When the Constitution Threatens Democracy, Pence Denounces Conspiracy That FBI Was Behind Jan 6, But Claims ‘Riot’ Was Not an ‘Insurrection’
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Pro-Trump protesters gather on January 6, 2021 in Washington, DC. | Brent Stirton/Getty Images Insurrection Fallout Stop the Steal organizer charged in Capitol riot Brandon Straka, a self-described ex-liberal, was arrested on a felony charge of interfering with police during civil disorder. By...
used different language. Some critics of the Section 3 lawsuits have noted that out of the thousands of charges filed by the federal government related to Jan. 6, no one has been charged with the crime of insurrection — though severalfar-right extremistshave been convicted ofseditious ...
The committee said it would also be referring former Trump attorney John Eastman, who drafted a plan for Trump tocling to powerby falsely claiming then-Vice President Mike Pence could reject legitimate electors during the Jan. 6 certification of the vote, to the DOJ on multiple charges. ...
Jan. 6 is a bit of an exception. It’s hardly receded from the headlines, yet views of that day and the beliefs that drive them have mostly remained similar to where they were in late January 2021. According to data collected by the Public Religion Research Institute (where I am the...
The DOJ has charged over 500 people who participated in the attempted coup on January 6, and reportedly expects to charge dozens more. They have yet to publicly charge any of the actual leaders of the attack on the U.S. Capitol, an attempt to overturn a free a...
Wallace concluded that “Trump engaged in an insurrection on January 6, 2021 through incitement, and that the First Amendment does not protect Trump’s speech” at the Ellipse that day. She also found that Trump “acted with the specific intent to disrupt the Electoral College certification...
MAGA Civil War January 6, 2021 shirts CNN Illustrations/Tess Owens/Vice News There are still many questions about how exactly the attack on the Capitol happened and who led the charge. But the calls for overthrowing the government and for a civil or race war have long been rallying cries...
For years, Trump has railed against the now-defunct January 6 committee, accusing its members of being “thugs and scoundrels” who were peddling a “monstrous lie” about his involvement in the insurrection. His lawyers tried to convince Wallace to ignore the panel’s findings, and presente...