let s start with that. the latest plea agreement could be in the case of mccreery. he s a lower level case but was in a distinctive location, and he was with that first mob as it faced off with the lone capitol police officer outside the u.s. senate, according to prosecutors. we ll see if that goes to a plea deal on friday. if so, it s striking because we are now at approximately 600 federal cases, and we are nearing 10% of those january 6th cases that have gone to a plea agreement. the case numbers are still rising. we have found in the internal e-mails under the freedom of information act there are more cases than we knew about in d.c. on january 6th. park police protect the federal park spaces, washington
if you don t say all these things, you never wind up with an executive order like this, which is why no president has done that. i take the hypothetical. if that hypothetical arose, i think it would be different. that is, context matters. supreme court in mccreery, for example, says governments can close shops on sundays. and if they do it because of labor, they want to give workers a rest, that s fine. if they do it and at the same time announce the reason i m doing it is to help churches, that s obviously an establishment clause problem. that s why context matters. it always has, in the context of the establishment clause and here the history is overwhelming. that s why this is so unique. this is not, you know, something that is going to hamstring any president from, you know, anything that s happened in our lifetimes. this is a very unusual circumstance in which you have all of these different statements. in your brief before the district court, you argue the statutory grounds qui