1. A few notes on the #Schaeffer plea. He apparently was not charged initially with a felony so he had no grand jury indictment or waiver. Some minor housekeeping filings and then an information filed yesterday that charged 18 USC 1512(c)(2) obstructing Congress.
https://twitter.com/TimInHonolulu/status/1383083419089862657
2. The new 1512(c)(2) charge appears to be the felony hammer they are using to hit a lot of people and a few weeks ago they started indicting people on conspiracy for it. IMO that is where TFG and his crew including complicit members of Congress are likely to be charged.
3. I personally would have no hesitation charging the seven @SenateGOP and the over 100 @HouseGOP with it along with TFG and about 100 of his crew including possibly Charles Koch and Ginni Thomas based on their funding of the insurrection if there is any evidence that they knew
4. delaying the vote was the purpose of the criminal conspiracy they joined. By now the USA has the emails and texts and may start handing down indictments. Having a cooperating witness may be the sign that the grand jury can start churning out the indictments for the GQP
5. insurrectionists who will be looking at doing significant time and more importantly may not qualify for pre-trial release under current law where the max is 20 years.
6. So the crimes he was charged with are obstructing Congress and carrying a weapon (bear spray) into VP's temporary residence. If there are documents, emails or texts from and to the VIP insurrectionists showing that they knew of the bear spray and the plan to delay and agreed
7. to advance the purpose of the conspiracy (delay), I think that works to make the conspiracy to violate 1512(c)(2) a much bigger deal when tied to agreement to commit violence in Congress near the VP. I defer to folks with federal sentencing guidelines background that I lack.
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