Former Capitol Police officer Aquilino Gonell said he and his fellow officers 'risked everything' to defend the Capitol during the riot on January 6, 2021.
Donald Trump’s legal exposure is partly tied to his political success: Winning the presidential election is his best legal strategy for fighting his criminal cases. A haunting video shown at the Democratic National Convention in Chicago on Wednesday night was a stark reminder of what that means when it comes to the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, both for Trump’s own criminal case and Jan. 6 defendants more broadly.
Now, I began this post by noting that Trump’s legal exposure is partly tied to his political success, because the Supreme Court has already given him a head start. In Trump v. United States last month, the Republican-appointed majority rendered at least some of Trump’s conduct immune from prosecution; the extent of that immunity is still being litigated and won’t likely be fully resolved before the election. In another Jan. 6–related ruling this past term, Fischer v.
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