A screen cap in the arrest affidavit for Josiah Kenyon makes clear why the Capitol Police have resisted widespread release of surveillance video from January 6. Over the course of two hours, liquids thrown inside the Tunnel and the change of light with the setting sun made the video almost useless for capturing Kenyon's alleged crime on video.

We know just two things about the search of Rudy's phones that has been going on since April. First, if there is evidence of crimes on Rudy's 16 devices, DOJ will have a way of getting to it. And we would not have anyway of knowing that they had.

One of the guys Ethan Nordean recruited to stand "on the front line" with him on January 6 played a key role in breaching the East side of the building.

The parallel investigations by Congress and DOJ provide a way for Joe Biden to waive Executive Privilege without learning details about DOJ's investigation.

In the face of Republicans' unrelenting attack on democracy, expert commentators who support democracy have a choice: They can defend the rule of law and shame those who have denigrated it, or they can spend their time complaining about the guy trying, however imperfectly, to defend it himself. The latter will make Garland less able to do his job, the former will help him do whatever he is willing to do.