Everand Logo

Welcome to Everand!

  • The Christian Science Monitor

    Incitement, sedition, and conspiracy – explaining Capitol crimes

    Jan 15, 2021 4 minutes

    The United States is in the middle of its most turbulent transition of governments in over a century.

    On Jan. 6 hundreds of rioters invaded the U.S. Capitol, disrupting the constitutionally mandated counting of electoral votes by Congress and resulting in five deaths. Federal law enforcement has warned of potential violent demonstrations at every state capitol ahead of President-elect Joe Biden’s inauguration next week.

    The immediate political consequences could soon be resolved – though the aftershocks will linger. The House of Representatives this week, in a bipartisan vote, impeached President Donald Trump for a historic second time for “incitement of insurrection.” Next comes a trial in the Senate.

    The legal consequences, however, may not be known for months. 

    Criminal investigations into the Capitol invasion

    Does President Trump face legal jeopardy then?Great, so Mr. Trump is in the clear.Isn’t it rare for former presidents to be prosecuted?What about other people? What legal trouble are they in?Sounds ominous. What will we see happen now?

    You’re reading a preview, subscribe to read more.

    More from The Christian Science Monitor

    The Christian Science Monitor5 min readPopular Culture & Media Studies
    Beyond TikTok Ban: How One State Is Grappling With Teens And Scrolling
    Will American teens lose their access to TikTok? Should they? A new law that could ban the video app – a platform especially popular with youth – unless it is sold by Chinese owner ByteDance, moves the former question closer to an answer. But the lat
    The Christian Science Monitor5 min read
    In Kentucky, The Oldest Black Independent Library Is Still Making History
    Thirty minutes into the library tour, Louisa Sarpee wants to work there. History is so close to her. One block away from her high school, the small library she had never set foot in laid the foundation of African American librarianship. What is more,
    The Christian Science Monitor4 min read
    Are World’s 200 Million Pastoral Herders A Climate Threat?
    In early 2020, just before the world locked down, I was in Ethiopia as a journalist, documenting the challenges faced by a tribe of nomadic pastoralists that has made its home in the Danakil Desert for over 1,000 years. About 1.5 million Afar tribesp

    Related