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Bernstein: Judge: Trump broke law. Here’s why that matters
By Jonathan Bernstein
Published: April 4, 2022, 6:01am
The congressional committee investigating the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol last year still hasn’t started overdue public hearings. But it has now produced an important legal opinion from a federal judge stating that the “illegality” of President Donald Trump’s actions after losing the 2020 election “was obvious.”
The opinion does not put Trump or anyone else in immediate legal jeopardy, although it might put pressure on the Department of Justice to look seriously at the possibility of future indictments.
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