The January 6th hearings have done much to establish Donald Trump’s personal culpability in an illegal scheme to disrupt the electoral tally and commit fraud. “A greater area of contention is how he might be held accountable,” tnycloseread writes.
“I don’t want to say, ‘The election is over,’ ” Donald Trump said on January 7, 2021. He’d been given a script for a video statement on the events of the previous day, when, at his prompting, a mob had assaulted the Capitol in an attempt to disrupt the electoral-vote tally. The video was meant to calm his supporters and to reassure the country that the election was, indeed, over.
The committee itself cannot file criminal charges, though it can refer its findings to the Department of Justice. It’s not news to the D.O.J., of course, that laws were broken. More than eight hundred and fifty people have been charged so far. In late June, the department issued subpoenas in connection with an investigation of the Trump team’s “fake electors” scheme. And yet there is some discontent among Democrats at the pace of the D.O.J.
Some Democrats and legal scholars have seized on Section 3 of the Fourteenth Amendment as a possible route to disqualifying Trump from taking office again. This provision, originally aimed at keeping Confederates who had been public officials before the Civil War from holding certain offices after it, refers rather broadly to engaging in “insurrection or rebellion.” The problems with applying it now are manifold.
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