The Aftermath - Ep 2: Scattered to the Four Winds
Lawfare Presents: The Aftermath
Lawfare
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🗓️ 5 January 2023
⏱️ 62 minutes
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Summary
In the wake of January 6, there were immediate calls for en masse arrests of all individuals on the Capitol compound, and demands that every one of them be hauled into court to stand trial.
But our justice system does not work that way. The bedrock of our legal system is the due process of law. You can’t be tried for being part of an insurrectionist mob, only for the specific things that you did–or, more precisely, what prosecutors can prove you did.
January 6, is not one case, but thousands of cases. In this episode, we explore what happened inside the Department of Justice in the days after the Capitol Attack.
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| 0:00.0 | I think where it really hit me, this moment where it just stunned me, was that people just |
| 0:12.4 | left the capital. |
| 0:14.6 | At some point this was just over in somewhat of a whimper that people just walked away. |
| 0:20.9 | This is Congressman Antichem of New Jersey. |
| 0:23.6 | The fact that none of them were detained or arrested on that day was just shocking. |
| 0:31.6 | I remember literally just going to the capital and just asking people like, what happened? |
| 0:35.5 | How were they allowed to just walk out the door? |
| 0:40.8 | What does this mean for what comes next? |
| 0:42.8 | It was so confusing to me after what I had seen. |
| 0:47.0 | So I had a lot of questions. |
| 0:49.4 | It's January 7th, 2021. |
| 0:52.5 | Less than 24 hours since the capital has been violently attacked. |
| 0:56.9 | Three individuals are already dead and more than 100 are injured. |
| 1:02.1 | Congress has certified the Electoral College vote, cementing Joe Biden as the next president |
| 1:07.4 | of the United States. |
| 1:09.3 | But the country is in shock and the rioters are heading home. |
| 1:13.8 | Thousands of people who ransacked the capital just went back to whatever hotels they were |
| 1:20.7 | staying at and had to take out food. |
| 1:24.4 | Kim is not exaggerating. |
| 1:26.8 | It appears that thousands of people have committed crimes. |
| 1:30.6 | Hundreds have committed serious felonies in front of the world. |
| 1:34.4 | The evidence of those crimes is strewn across an array of platforms, live stream videos, |
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