A lot is riding on the attorney general’s prosecution of January 6 insurrectionists—including whether future coup plotters think they’ll be able to get away with it.
“Since the dawn of the Republic, no enemy—foreign or domestic—had ever obstructed Congress’s counting of the votes,” the brief says. “Until President Trump.”
Some Democrats worry that a Senate trial could paralyze Biden’s first 100 days. That’s no reason not to impeach Trump. It could be cause to pause after that.