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Political journalists are describing this Trump impeachment vote like the last one, as something to get done before moving back to everyday political squabbling. That fails to account for the way a massive investigation into the insurrection must, inevitably, account for Donald Trump's role and might even one day include him.

A trusted Bill Barr associate, Seth DuCharme, just rolled out a prosecution of pro-Trump voter suppression from 2016.

While it's unclear whether Strzok will succeed, he appears using his lawsuit for more than just obtaining recourse for the damage to his career and his reputation done by Trump's attention. Rather, he seems intent on unpacking how and why Trump used his texts to compromise the US government. 

Some of the things we still haven't seen among the arrests of the January 6 insurrectionists: those who assaulted about 100 officers, Brian Sicknick's murderer, the DNC bomber, and Rudy Giuliani's interlocutors.

Sure, Jeffrey Bossert Clark should be shunned in the respectable legal profession for helping Trump attempt a coup. But so should the men who willfully let DOJ champion Trump's conspiracy theories for the two years before that. 

The question of how many of the non-violent insurrectionists DOJ should charge compares in interesting ways to the Trump DOJ's failed attempt to prosecute a large number of protestors at Trump's inauguration because a handful cause some property damage.

There are ways to obtain accountability for the Trump Administration that don't necessarily require non-criminal investigative committees.

The thing that makes Eric Munchel's grab for the gavel and the zip-ties particularly dangerous is Trump's illegal plan to steal an election. Until prosecutors start naming Trump as a co-conspirator, start naming the Big Lie of a stolen election as the motivating cause of the violence, guys like Munchel are going to continue to get bail. 

During the two weeks between Trump incited an insurrection and Joe Biden's inauguration, Jeffrey Rosen remained virtually silent about that coup attempt. Last night we learned he's also a witness.