Would anyone like to share their prosecutorial acumen with us?

[CaptainTruth]

15. I'm no legal expert, but I've assumed that the Jan 6 rioters would be convicted first.

Due process is a process. It always seemed logical to me that step 1 in the prosecution would be to find Jan 6 rioters guilty. Those cases are in process right now. Find some of them guilty of sedition (or of behaviour that constitutes sedition), which establishes that there was, in fact, sedition which meets the legal definition of the word. Then, once it's been legally established that there was sedition, go after seditious conspiracy charges for anyone involved in the planning.

It doesn't make sense to me to pursue seditious conspiracy charges (for planners) before you've proven, in court, with a verdict, that sedition took place. Again, I'm not an expert, it just seems logical that prosecutors would approach the case(s) in that manner.

For reference:

18 U.S. Code § 2384 - Seditious conspiracy

If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384]