Hey, everyone, listen to the podcast.

This is Ari Melber from the Bee with Ari Melber podcast edition.

And I want to share with you a little bit more of my essay on the coup conspiracy.

This was what we published as a forward to the January 6th report.

And you can freely get it at melberbook.com.

But if you're not getting it or you're just interested, I wanted to share the conclusion of what I wrote.

And I'm going to read it to you as part of our podcast extra, followed by some of our segments on this topic right now.

What would justice look like?

Beyond the fundamentals, a non-partisan probe, due process, a just probe of this insurrection must face the powerful with the same vigor it faces, the pawns.

It must evaluate the alleged crime, not the person accused, with no fear or favor for people who may run for office or gain power again.

Across the eight plots of the coup conspiracy, some efforts might not rise to the standard of indictable crimes.

Law suits, for example, are lawful.

The electors plot also began as arguably lawful because election law provides for some time to contest even decisive results.

The actions of elected lawmakers, for example, in Congress, probably do not rise to indictable offenses, barring an external fraud or crime committed outside of the legislature.

Under current law, however, a disturbing amount of conduct designed to steal the elections is simply not indictable.

And that's a fact the prosecutors have to deal with.

However, the coordinated Trump plots went beyond law suits or legislative debates.

They involved the criminal coup conspiracy.

One plank is the now convicted sedition conspiracy in the attack, a grave federal crime, while other planks stretched across all of the plots to overturn the election results.

So justice would mean prosecutors pursue the people who attempted or completed conspiracies to defraud the US, commit sedition or related violence, hinder the counting of votes or the election results, submit fraudulent electors, corruptly use government power to oversee elections, or violate any federal or state laws that safeguard our elections.

Justice would mean facing the overwhelming evidence that the leader and beneficiary of the coup conspiracy Donald Trump be held accountable.

And here's how I close this piece, which again, I want to share with those of you who listen to our podcast.

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