Pardoning 1,500 insurrectionists sets a precedent that “you’re above the law if you break the law on my behalf”
On January 6, 2021, I was 20 miles away, and now I live 2,120 miles away in Payson, Utah, the same distance as Barcelona to Moscow. Back then, we mobilized law enforcement, closed schools and businesses, put DC on lockdown, and watched real-time videos from the attackers on their own social media intermixed on local news broadcasts — assaults on police officers; feces on walls; gates, fences, windows, and doors broken; grungy mobs climbing walls; and the official counting of electoral votes and certification of the election halted while senators and the vice president went into bunkers in the background of a gallows with the name “Pence” on it. This far away from DC it seems like it’s a political issue rather than a law & order issue, but I don’t see it as politics at all. Sometimes it feels like I moved to the other side of the world.
This legal analysis video is really well made, and 5 minutes long.
