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By Brian Williams February 1, 2021 Federal prosecutors, aided by bosses, liberal political groups and tech moguls, are aggressively pursuing charges — including seditious conspiracy — against a small group of individuals who pushed their way into the U.S. Capitol Jan. 6 during a much larger protest outside against the certification of the 2020 presidential election. The U.S. law on the books defines conspiring to commit sedition as plotting “to overthrow, put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States.” But this ...

More terrorism laws would only help to perpetuate the harm to democracy that the Capitol mob tried to inflict.

Help Save People's World The economic crisis has hit People's World hard. We need the support of all our friends and readers to continue publishing. Communists like my uncle were sent to prison because they fought for democracy January 15, 2021 12:39 PM CDT By Roberta Wood LeRoy Wood, left, being led away by federal agents after his Smith Act conviction for conspiring to teach or advocate the overthrow of the U.S. government. | Courtesy of Roberta Wood My late uncle, LeRoy H. Wood, spent years in a federal prison in Lewi...

The 1954 Attack On The Capitol And The Woman Who Led It By Marina Manoukian/Jan. 10, 2021 9:22 pm EDT/Updated: Feb. 15, 2021 4:50 pm EDT In the middle of the 20th century, one woman became the face of the movement for Puerto Rican self-determination. Her name was Lolita Lebrón, and in an effort to draw the world's attention to Puerto Rico's colonial subjugation by the United States, she and a handful of men opened fire in the U.S. House of Representatives. After the United States Capitol was stormed by insurrectionists on January 6th, 2021, Amarilis Rodriguez questioned how long the domes...

It would be a political crisis if the President were prosecuted, but US law makes it a crime to attempt to overthrow the government or encourage others to do so.