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The officer, Justin Lee, joined the force a year after the attack. He had been on leave since July because of an unrelated case in which he fatally shot an armed man.

Kenneth Chesebro said that even long-shot litigation would hold political advantages, undercutting assertions that Donald J. Trump’s lawyers were simply providing legal advice in challenging the 2020 results.

Nearly 200 G.O.P. lawmakers have supported Representative Jim Jordan, the hard-right Ohio lawmaker, in the speaker fight. Some Republicans say that may doom the party in coming elections.

The Republican Party is on a downward spiral of dysfunction.

In her latest film, the documentarian Alexandra Pelosi has disarming chats with people who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol.

The Pennsylvania woman also smashed a window with an ice ax and a cardboard tube, prosecutors said. She expressed regret for her conduct, saying: “I have failed everyone around me.”

What I heard when I listened to Trump for more than 30 seconds.

Quinn Mitchell, an aspiring journalist from New Hampshire, was escorted out of a G.O.P. candidate summit on Friday, though he was later allowed to return.

Once a tormentor of the Republican Party’s speakers, the Ohio congressman and unapologetic right-wing pugilist has become a potential speaker himself.

Recent incendiary statements by the former president, including that shoplifters should be shot, come at a time when his supporters are already angry over his indictments.