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Defraud the united states, making materially false statements to the federal government, that one, in this case, is about conveying to congress those lists of fake electors from various states that biden won, and the last one, insurrection. we are going to talk in more detail about that last one, insurrection, because it is not every day that somebody gets charged with a crime like that. that is a rare bird in the criminal law, even since january 6th, as weve seen hundreds of people who particip...

Making materially false statements to the federal government, that one, in this case, is about conveying to congress those lists of fake electors from various states that biden won, and the last one, insurrection. we are going to talk in more detail about that last one, insurrection, because it is not every day that somebody gets charged with a crime like that. that is a rare bird in the criminal law, even since january 6th, as weve seen hundreds of people who participated in the attack on congr...

When it comes to the former presidents, specifically. theres a few things to note about these criminal referrals. up top, obviously, the big asterisks, the big caveat here is that, obviously, the justice department can take or leave this referral. they dont have to act on it if they dont want to. indeed, the january 6th investigation has already made for criminal referrals to the justice department already, all of them for contempt. two of the four cases, doj bring up prosecution, steve bannon w...

Still, though, the somewhat inexplicable spin wont stop. check this out. david neir pointed this out today, and he was right to do so. this is "the new york times" headline from 2015, when paul ryan received his nomination to be speaker of the house, republicans nominate paul ryan as house speaker. this is how the same newspaper covered pelosis nomination. democrats nominate pelosi to be speaker, but with significant defections. when paul ryan got that headline, he had 200 votes in favor, 43 aga...