Thread by @thomasafine

It's on like Donkey Kong.

Thanked them for their work, not just in the past 10 months but in the past several years, during unprecedented difficulties.

Will do everything in their power to defend the American people and American democracy. Will protect the rights of every eligible citizen to cast a vote that counts.

Record speed and scale during a pandemic in which some courts have not been able to operate.

70 D.C. prosecutors, 70 more elsehwere.

siezed 2000 devices, reviewed 20,000 hours of video footage, 15 terrabytes of data. 300,000 tips

Misdemeanor charges preserve resources so that the system can focus time and effort on more serious perpetrators.

Less serious charges first leads to shortest sentences first.

"Or otherwise responsible for the assault on our democracy." [more or less].
In other words, not just "the tourists".

"We will and we must speak through our work." Anything else basically makes their work harder.

Basically describing how lost crimes first is the natural way to gather evidence of the more serious crimes.

""Follow the money". He wouldn't say that if it was just the tourists.

"There can not be different rules for the powerful and the powerless."

Talking about threats of violence now against police, election workers, journalists, teachers, members of congress, etc.

Oh I should've tweeted the video URL:
justice.gov/live

"risk becoming normalized and routine if we do not stop them"

In 2021, the department charged more criminal threats than at any time in at least the last five years.

Criticizing SCOTUS for weakening voting rights act.

"It is essential that Congress Act to give us the power we need" to insure voting access

I'm not tweeting all the good bits here but he's covering voting rights as thoroughly as 1/6 (which of course is connected).

He's done.

I think he went as far as he possibly could to reassure the public without disclosing any case specifics. He basically said what I and some others have been saying for months. Things take time, the big cases will be last, etc.

I know some idiots won't be satisfied.

Mainly it went the way I expected. I was actually surprised he so directly referenced SCOTUS' role in gutting the Voting Rights Act, and so directly asked Congress to try to fix that.