One of the many positive aspects of watching the House select committee hearings on the 1/6 insurrection has been the in-depth discussion of the law and how good lawyering and bad lawyering are in conflict over the conduct of the losing 2020 presidential candidate.
Donald Trump lost the election that year to Joe Biden. He incited the insurrection on 1/6. He got impeached for the second time by the House over that act. Trump continues to foment The Big Lie about the election, alleging widespread voter fraud that did not exist.
The networks that are covering the televised hearings — that’s about all of them — are walking viewers through the aspects of the law that are coming into play.
It fascinates me to no end. I will never pretend to learn enough about the legalities of Trump’s ill-conceived effort to undermine the electoral process to argue the legal facts.
Still, the arguments being made by the commentators are educational to me. I long have said there are many things I don’t know. The legal intricacies of a former POTUS seeking to undermine our democratic process is one of them.
They are coming into sharper focus every day.