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Mike Lee voted against convicting Donald Trump for inciting the insurrection that targeted Mike Pence on January 6. But his efforts to prevent evidence involving him in the days efforts from appearing in the Congressional record provided evidence the FBI might use to criminally charge him in the already-charged conspiracy.

January 6, 2020 wasn't the first time Trump riled up a mob and aimed them at his target. Just ask Katy Tur about Raleigh NC in 2015.

When Republicans in the Senate vote not to convict President Trump they will officially approve of a President doing nothing as the nation was attacked by terrorists.

Trump impeachment II is upon us. Here are a few things:

Thomas Caldwell says that his bad back and his Top Secret security clearance prevented him from engaging in a conspiracy to attack the members of Congress he called traitors.

There's a big rush to draw conclusions about role Facebook had in the January 6 insurrection. It's too early to draw any conclusions yet.

In this post, I noted that many of the people who engaged in the most violent action on January 6 were not known to be part of one of the organized militia groups, which seem instead to have set off and channeled the violence of others. I described…

In his opening brief on impeachment, Trump couldn't leave well enough alone and adhere to the Senate Republicans preferred way to get through impeachment, just claiming the entire thing is illegal. Instead, he made several denials that Jamie Raskin has used as an opening to force Trump to choose whether to testify or not.

It will take DOJ some time to fully investigate the January 6 insurrection. But there's no sign, yet, that it won't be fully pursued.