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6 Jan, 11 tweets, 4 min read
I wrote about AG Garland's speech yesterday and what it should mean for DOJ's Jan. 6 investigation.
Garland's speech was a call for patience — and a promise of full justice. He explained how massive, complex investigations proceed—from the bottom up, from the small fry to the big fish.
Above all, he pledged that DOJ has "no higher priority," would do "whatever it takes for justice to be done," and would hold "all January 6th perpetrators, at any level, accountable under law—whether they were present that day" at the Capitol or not.
If he really means that, DOJ must prosecute Trump. The people who stormed the Capitol, as one judge has put it, were mere "pawns."
As @RepLizCheney put it in voting to impeach, “The President of the United States summoned this mob, assembled the mob, and lit the flame of this attack.” And he did it all in plain sight.
Garland mustn't fear claims that prosecuting Trump would be political. @SenMinorityLder all but called for Trump's prosecution in February: “We have a criminal justice system in this country,” he said, and “President Trump is still liable for everything he did ... in office.”
DOJ has plenty of statutory tools it could use. 18 U.S.C. §1512(c)(2) punishes "whoever corruptly … obstructs … or impedes any official proceeding." That includes proceedings "before the Congress," such as the joint session for counting electoral votes.
And some criminal law experts have argued that Trump could be held to have aided and abetted the insurrectionists' crimes by doing nothing to stop them.
Trump had the duty to intervene. Instead, he spent hours watching the mayhem on TV. That dereliction, plus is intent to stop the electoral-vote count, ought to land him in jail.
So if the attorney general means what he says, Trump’s day in the dock will come — if not soon, then soon enough.
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Hannity's not a journalist. And he certainly wasn't acting as a journalist when he engaged in these communications.
Just as Chris Cuomo had no right to avoid testifying about his advisory communications with his brother's staff, Hannity has no First Amendment or shield law privilege here.
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