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The TV lawyers arguing for or against prosecuting Donald Trump seem to have no idea how DOJ would charge Trump if they were considering it. This post lays out what would be consistent with the prosecutions DOJ has already charged.

The intelligence community did not fail to warn how fragile the Afghan government was. But it may have failed to understand how far up it had already sold out to the Taliban.

What if we had spent the last twenty years dealing with climate change rather than occupying Afghanistan?

When he testified before the January 6 committee about his assault, allegedly at the hands of two men charged in an omnibus assault indictment, Daniel Hodges called them terrorism. The indictment may well prove that their acts of violence against him and against our democracy were just that.

DOJ says that one thing that distinguishes January 6 from riots in Portland is how much more evidence there is. In fact, there were blind spots in the panopticon of the January 6 insurrection. But even defendants alleged to have committed assaults in one of those blind spots were still trackable by a slew of other evidence. 

On the Senate side, had Tommy Tuberville delayed his departure from the Senate after Trump called him, it might have led to the same kind of fatal conflict that led to Ashli Babbitt's death. Did Trump similarly call Paul Gosar before his delay on the House side did create such a conflict?

Even as January 6 defendant Brady Knowlton's lawyers have argued that an official proceeding is one in which the parties can suffer dire consequences if rulings don't go in their favor, more evidence is coming out about how Knowlton's actions fit into a larger, undeniably corrupt scheme to deprive Joe Biden (and Kamala Harris, who was present and participating on that day) of their electoral win.

No one is safe until we are all safe.

Before Trump told Jeffrey Rosen, "leave the rest to me," to steal the election, Trump had already started summoning his mob to DC. His invocation that "R Congressmen" would help him with his task reveal how real the harm of injustice from Brady Knowlton's actions was.

Towards the end of a very nuanced debate over the use of obstruction to charge January 6 defendants, the lawyer for defendant Brady Knowlton, Brent Mayr suggested the January 6 vote count can't be an official proceeding because no one risked any harm on January 6.