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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 we've seen hundreds of people who participated in the attack on congress brought up on federal charges. you are not seeing them brought up an...

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 we've seen hundreds of people who participated in the attack on congress brought up on federal charges. you are not seeing them brought up an insurrection. yoit is nota...

When it comes to the former presidents, specifically. there's 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 don't have to act on it if they don't 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 was convicted on contempt, remains out of jail for now, while he appeals his conviction. another t...

Still, though, the somewhat inexplicable spin won't 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 pelosi's nomination. democrats nominate pelosi to be speaker, but with significant defections. when paul ryan got that headline, he had 200 votes in favor, 43 against. nancy pelosi received more votes in favor, she had 203 yes votes and 33 no votes. yet she ge...