Welcome to this episode of Sisters Sidebar with Joyce fans and me, Barb McQuade.

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Our first question comes to us from Scott and Liberty, Pennsylvania. My name is Scott from Liberty, Pennsylvania. And my question to you is this,

exactly what statute could be used in order to criminally charge federal officers or their

superiors for inciting a riot? It seems like if we don't have one, we certainly need it. Thank you. Scott, thank you for

that question. I think it's terrific. We actually do have some statutes on the books that make it a

crime to incite either a riot or an insurrection. One of them is inciting an insurrection.

That is, you know, urging people to overthrow the government.

There's also another one called the Anti-Riot Act, which requires some elements of either

traveling across state lines or conspiring to travel across state lines for a group of people

to engage in acts of violence. So there are some,

you know, elements of each of those statutes that are required. But one of the reasons they are so

rarely charged is a Supreme Court case from the late 1960s called Brandenburg v. Ohio.

And what the court said there is that the First Amendment

protects speech unless you cross a really, really high threshold. And that is that your

words were both intended to elicit imminent lawless action and that it was likely to have that effect. So merely advocating

in the abstract that, you know, somebody ought to go storm January 6th, come January 6th, we'll be wild,

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