Seeing a claim out there that the DOJ “designated Jacob Chansley a domestic terrorist.” Big, if true. It’s not. While DOJ accurately referred to Jan. 6 as an act of domestic terrorism (using boilerplate language), they did not seek a terrorism sentencing enhancement. 
Here’s the language in the government’s memo in the Paul Hodgkins case from July versus their memo in the Jacob Chansley case this month:
“The department is very judicious about deploying the term [domestic terrorism] in the first instance, and typically will only do so in the backend of litigation when the facts and circumstances are going to be clear.” huffpost.com/entry/white-te…
“The department is going to be somewhat reluctant to come out in front during litigation in these types of cases and name someone as a domestic terrorist.” huffpost.com/entry/white-te…
On the battle over domestic terrorism: huffpost.com/entry/domestic…
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