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The View
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A Nation Asunder
Overturning Roe v. Wade upended
a lot more than the law on abortion
By Abigail Abrams
No longer will feminist empowerment
be mistaken for power
By Charlotte Alter
Plus: The privacy questions
lurking in employers’ promises
By Katie Reilly
The looming issue of
how to define personhood
By Madeleine Carlisle
Doctors’ dilemma: When does
an abortion save a life?
By Jamie Ducharme and Tara Law
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Healing Ukraine
In a nation ravaged by war,
First Lady Olena Zelenska immerses
herself in addressing traumas
both personal and collective
By Simon Shuster
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The World’s
Greatest Places
The world is re-opening and tourists
are venturing forth. Fifty far-flung
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The Brief
THE CASE
AGAINST
TRUMP
BY ERIC CORTELLESSA
New evidence from the
Jan. 6 hearings increases
the chances that the
former President will
face prosecution
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ot long ago, few in washington thought fraud, intent is a key factor. Trump’s main legal defense,
Donald Trump would face prosecution for the in other words, could be a version of the George Costanza
deadly attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, line “It’s not a lie if you believe it.” That may be why some
2021. Trump did not directly participate in the of the earliest evidence the committee presented detailed
riot, unlike nearly all of the more than 800 people the Jus- all the times Trump was told that he had lost the election
tice Department has charged as part of its wide- ranging and that his schemes to nullify Joe Biden’s victory didn’t
investigation. The former President’s allies have claimed pass legal muster. Greg Jacob, the top legal counsel to for-
that the violence that day came as a surprise to them and mer Vice President Mike Pence, testified that even John
to Trump, and some of his defenders have suggested that Eastman, a right-wing lawyer who was the most active
even if he could be linked to specific crimes, he lacked the proponent of blocking the Jan. 6, 2021, certification of the
criminal intent legally required for conviction because he Electoral College, acknowledged in a meeting with Trump
really believed the 2020 election had been stolen. two days earlier that the plan was legally unsound.
Now, after seven hearings by the House committee inves- That fact, and other evidence presented by the commit-
tigating the Jan. 6 attack, the picture has changed. In widely tee, would incriminate Trump even if he really believed
watched testimony, former Trump the election was stolen from him.
aides have said under oath that the Trying to stop congressional cer-
‘He has gone
former President was repeatedly tification of the Electoral College,
told his claims of significant voter especially by force, is a crime, and
fraud were baseless. The commit- Trump would be hard-pressed to
into a whole
tee has also produced evidence claim he didn’t intend to do that,
that Trump urged his supporters says Barbara McQuade, a former
different
to march to the Capitol even after U.S. Attorney for the Eastern Dis-
the Secret Service told him many trict of Michigan. The same goes
in the crowd were heavily armed, for trying to submit fraudulent
category of
and that he tried to recruit the Re- electors for certification. “No
publican National Committee to matter what he may believe about
potential
help submit fraudulent electors to whether he won or lost the elec-
the Electoral College. tion, he’s not allowed to be part
Trump has dismissed the com- of submitting a forged electoral
criminal
mittee’s work, calling it a “hoax” slate,” says Norm Eisen, a senior
run by “political hacks and fellow at the Brookings Institu-
liability.’
thugs,” but the sworn testimony tion who served as counsel to the
of eyewitnesses carries weight House during its first impeach-
under the law. Multiple former ment of Trump.
prosecutors from both political For all that, Attorney Gen-
—HARRY LITMAN,
parties say Trump may now be FORMER PROSECUTOR eral Merrick Garland will have to
vulnerable to at least five federal weigh other factors before giving
charges: conspiracy to defraud the green light for a case against
the U.S., attempt to obstruct an official act of Congress, in- Trump. Millions of Trump supporters might view the move
citing an insurrection, attempt to intimidate a U.S. govern- as politically motivated, eroding the public’s faith that the
ment official, and, most seriously, seditious conspiracy. “He feds use their massive powers to uphold the law, not to ad-
has gone into a whole different category of potential crimi- vance the interests of politicians. Bringing America’s first
nal liability,” says Harry Litman, a former U.S. Attorney for case against a former President, even if it were a lock, could
western Pennsylvania. also lower the bar for less principled future prosecutions.
But as the evidence against Trump mounts, choosing not to
The JusTice DeparTmenT has never indicted a former indict isn’t cost-free either, as it could undermine the demo-
President, much less one who may run against the sitting cratic principle that the law applies equally to everyone.
Commander-in-Chief—it’s a nightmare scenario for those “If you let him get away with it, does it suggest that if you’re
who seek to shield federal law enforcement from accusations a former President, you’re above the law?” McQuade says.
of political bias. That is one reason prosecutors would have Only a few people know whether Trump is even under for-
to be sure they could make a case against Trump stick before mal investigation, but more lawmakers are calling for the com-
bringing an indictment. Despite the committee’s work, it’s mittee to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department.
still far from clear they have the goods. “Any lawyer telling you “I think that he should be held accountable,” says Represen-
that this would be an easy case,” says Renato Mariotti, a for- tative Elaine Luria, a Virginia Democrat on the Jan. 6 panel.
mer federal prosecutor for the Northern District of Illinois, “or For now, the committee remains focused on setting down for
no problem at all, all the evidence is right there, is misleading.” history the most thorough account of the Jan. 6 attack and the
On some potential charges, the Justice Department events leading to it. What Justice makes of the evidence pro-
would face a high burden of proof: on anything involving duced in the process is ultimately up to Garland. 
The Brief is reported by Eloise Barry, Solcyre Burga, Tara Law, Sanya Mansoor, Billy Perrigo, Simmone Shah, and Julia Zorthian