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In reply to the discussion: Not a lawyer, or even one of the DU smart people but a thought. [View all]bottomofthehill
(9,392 posts)Anyone who was chanting stop the count,
anyone in the mob, anyone who was a party to the assault on the Capitol would and should be charged and convicted. The judicial system did not have the band with but clearly looking at the definition below, they fit, every shitbag one of them. They took up arms against the US, they attacked the capitol in an attempt to stop the counting of the electoral college votes which was an attempt to overthrow the US Government.
§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.
(June 25, 1948, ch. 645, 62 Stat. 808 ; July 24, 1956, ch. 678, §1, 70 Stat. 623 ; Pub. L. 103322, title XXXIII, §330016(1)(N), Sept. 13, 1994, 108 Stat. 2148 .)