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Reflecting on many of the recent, significant stories in law, government, and justice, a whirlwind survey of five of the most important developments of late 2022—including the decision by the Supreme Court to continue the Trump era, pandemic-based regulation prohibiting asylum seekers from coming into America; the severe sentencings of two of the many defendants who conspired to kidnap and harm the Governor of Michigan; the arrest in Pennsylvania of the alleged murderer of four University of Idaho undergraduates; the issuance by the President of six constitutional pardons to deserving citizens; and the release by the House Ways and Means Committee of six years of the personal tax returns of ex-President Trump (along with some initial assessments of what those documents reveal).
In the immediate aftermath of the final work of the House Selection Committee on the January 6 Attack on the Capitol, a review of some of its broad and many of its specific factual findings and assessments—including primary focus on the responsibility of Donald Trump before, during, and after the assault. In more detail, a modest legal analysis of the recommendations of the Committee for his criminal prosecution under four, discrete but related theories—namely, obstruction of official proceedings, conspiracy to defraud the United States, making false statements to the Government, and inciting, assisting and otherwise encouraging insurrection. And an exposition of the principal architects of the so-called “fake electors”/illegal “senate president strategy”; recommendations to bar the ex-President from any future official service under the 14th Amendment to the Constitution and to bar some Trump lawyers from the practice of law for their frivolous litigation; evidence of the ex-President’s profound dereliction of duty in failing to respond timely and effectively to the attack; a description of his co-conspirators both within and outside of his senior circle of “lieutenants”; the enacted amendments to the Electoral Count Act to prevent future efforts to undermine Congressional counting; and the fascinating reports of a “blue team” on the failures of law enforcement to digest and respond to pre-insurrection threats of violence and of a “green team” that documented some $250 million raised by the Trump Campaign and the Republican National Committee—all based on the thoroughly fraudulent but widely promoted “big lie” about the 2020 election.
Some final “take-aways” from the Committee reporting—along with predictions about next actions by the Justice Department prosecutors—in the next broadcast!
