That pressure eased up a bit yesterday after the DOJ announced that 11 individuals were charged with seditious conspiracy to oppose the lawful transfer of presidential power by force.
Starting with the leader of the Oath Keepers, Stewart Rhodes, and other 10 members of the far-right militia, the DOJ sent a clear signal... the perpetrators of the assault on our democracy are going to pay the ultimate price.
Garland opened the floodgates to others who may also be charged with obstruction of justice, citing their involvement in a seditious conspiracy.
To be sure, the DOJ rarely uses the charge because it can be politically loaded and has been difficult to prove in the past.
So, this is a big deal. Garland must think he has a solid case.
This announcement comes amid the GOP's desperate efforts to downplay what happened on Jan. 6th. Trump and minions are in a full court press to erase history, or at the very least, re-write it.
It doesn't take too much imagination to see that Trump and his congressional cronies, along with right-wing lawyers and activists, tried their hardest to obstruct the certification of the legal votes.
It's the same thing the Oath Keepers did. But on a more massive scale.
We live in cataclysmic times where norms have shriveled up and it's a brave new world between the forces of tyranny and democracy.
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