but also, it will invoke a whole new level of justice department discipline and confidence which is can they stand up to the partisan hurricane that they will unleash as republicans. the former president himself but also republicans up and down the country trained their fire, the proverbial fire on the justice department to get them to drop the case, pressure the justice department, they ll threaten to defund them, the attack individual prosecutors. the justice department in the past is not being great and resisting political pressure when people with political power in the sites of prosecutors. that a few moments but they have caved that pressure again and again including this edition cases around world war ii. i hope that the justice department is conscious of that.
public authority defense, where someone charged with a crime says hey, i thought i was following the law, when i was doing this crime, i thought i was acting under the authority of a government official. and that s a sort of closely related, but separate thing. when the oath keepers are saying here is, they believed. in their minds, they believed that it would have been legal for them to bring their weapons over the river, and come to the aid of their compatriots at the capitol, had trump invoked the insurrection act. and what s interesting about, that aside from the sort of novel, and very risky, frankly, defense the raising is, you mentioned before, there have been sedition cases in the past, going back to civil war cases, through the wall believes, the radical unionists, and warmer sisters. enough to islamic terrorists. nobody, and none of it charged
it had to be raises an issue of intent. there is a defense called a public authority defense, where someone charged with a crime says hey, i thought i was following the law, when i was doing this crime, i thought i was acting under the authority of a government official. and that s a sort of closely related, but separate thing. when the oath keepers are saying here is, they believed. in their minds, they believed that it would have been legal for them to bring their weapons over the river, and come to the aid of their compatriots at the capitol, had trump invoked the insurrection act. and what s interesting about, that aside from the sort of novel, and very risky, frankly, defense the raising is, you mentioned before, there have been sedition cases in the past, going back to civil war cases, through the wall believes, the radical unionists, and warmer sisters.