Thread by @TimInHonolulu

1. To charge, participants must have agreed criminal purpose of the conspiracy. Here is an excerpt from the DOJ jury instructions:

"A conspiracy is an agreement between two or more people to join together to attempt to accomplish some unlawful purpose.

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2. It is a kind of "partnership in crime" in which each member becomes the agent of every other member. It does not matter whether or not the conspiracy was successful. The essence of the offense is that two or more persons have combined, or mutually agreed, to do

3. something illegal."

The challenge I see is that manipulating US statutes to some purpose that may be offensive but not overtly criminal, may be a defense to the scheme. I would look for evidence that they agreed to obstruct Congress though that count is still problematic

4. as Judge Mehta has recently opined. IMO an agreement to have a mob enter the Capitol would be a clear "unlawful purpose." So I think the DOJ has to develop evidence that there was a plan to assault the Capitol. That plan could be charged under Chapter 115 of Title18 as a

5. seditious conspiracy, insurrection and arguably as advocating overthrow and levying war treason. The charge of a Koch community organizer whose conduct appears to have been more of an observer who entered the Capitol after the breach and was present after the Ashli Babbit

6. shooting may be the key link to the Koch Network and thus sufficient to bring down the organized anti-democratic conspiracy that is currently assaulting school boards, conducting fraudulent election audits and advancing the active conspiracy to destroy the US democracy.