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As the Proud Boys trial gets underway, finally, prosecutors are beginning to show how the Proud Boys worked with people -- Alex Jones, Ali Alexander, and Roger Stone -- who in turn worked with Donald Trump in what ended up being a successful attempt to obstruct the certification of Donald Trump's loss.

No matter how much work Jack Smith and his team get accomplished in the weeks ahead, it will be hamstrung by appellate uncertainty around the one charge, 18 USC 1512(c)(2), that most people agree should be used to hold Trump accountable. 

Charlie Pierce wants trials the likes of the Nuremberg Trials, which were so powerful because the architects of an authoritarian conspiracy were tied to the events that took place at the crime scene. And DOJ took a key step in doing that week -- a key step in an effort that has been obviously in the works for 18 months, an effort that started on January 4, 2021, when Enrique Tarrio's phone was seized. And yet Charlie Pierce has seen no evidence of that. 

Kash Patel thinks the first thing the Insurrection Protection Committee should investigate is why Robert Hur, as a senior DOJ official, tried to uphold DOJ's policies on protecting ongoing investigations.

In June, I laid out precisely why sharing Jeremy Bertino's January 6 transcript with Proud Boy prosecutors was urgent. As the trial kicks off, it has become clear just how right I was.

James Comer has made it his top priority -- the very first thing he did as Chair! -- to schedule a hearing so he can learn why Twitter prevented him from accessing pictures of Hunter Biden's dick leading up to the 2020 election.

Amid the reporting on classified documents found at Penn Biden, none has considered the possibility that the documents were taken there by someone other than Joe Biden.

What is "besmirching"?

Trump's team continued to bullshit the press last month about the search that private investigators did for Trump's stolen documents.

SDNY says that it's merely academic to a journalist whether the government might prosecute her under the Espionage Act for sharing already published information.