Treason and Sedition
Proud Boys Ignored Orders Given at Pre-Jan. 6 Meeting
One week before scores of Proud Boys helped lead a pro-Trump mob in a violent assault on the Capitol last year, Enrique Tarrio, the chairman of the group, and some of his top lieutenants held a foul-mouthed video conference with a handpicked crew of members. The meeting, on Dec. 30, 2020, marked the founding of […]
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The Future Criminal Case Against Donald Trump
Public hearings serve a subtle function. They permit the minds of the American people to acculturate to the facts and evidence. By laying out the facts that explain what Mr. Trump did, the Jan. 6 hearings can, in advance, help acclimate the public to why the Justice Department has to take criminal action against the […]
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Proud Boys Charged With Sedition in Capitol Attack
Enrique Tarrio, the former chairman of the Proud Boys, and four other members of the far-right group were indicted on Monday for seditious conspiracy in connection with the storming of the Capitol last January, the most serious criminal charges to be brought in the Justice Department’s sprawling investigation of the assault. The sedition charges against […]
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Legal Effort Expands to Disqualify Republicans as ‘Insurrectionists’
The lawyers bringing the new suits believe they have a stronger case to show that the elected officials in question are insurrectionists. In the run-up to Jan. 6, Mr. Gosar and Mr. Biggs repeatedly posted the falsehood that Mr. Trump had won the election. Mr. Gosar organized some of the earliest rallies to “Stop the […]
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Michael Flynn Is Still at War
Raiklin proceeded into what Maddox described as “a wild, contortionist explanation of how they would reverse Biden’s election,” involving a succession of state audits. First Arizona, then Georgia, then Wisconsin and then other state legislatures would nullify the 2020 election results, he envisioned, until Biden’s victory margin would evaporate. Maddox told Raiklin he was skeptical. […]
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Hong Kong Police Raid Stand News and Arrest Staff
HONG KONG — Hundreds of Hong Kong police officers arrested six current or former senior staff members of an outspoken pro-democracy news website and raided the site’s headquarters on Wednesday, yet another crackdown by the government on the city’s once-vibrant independent press. The six were arrested on suspicion of conspiring to publish seditious material, according […]
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