NYT: The House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack directly tied Donald J. Trump on Tuesday to a scheme to put forward fake slates of pro-Trump electors and presented fresh details on how the former president sought to bully, cajole… Continue reading

NYT: Rusty Bowers, the Republican speaker of Arizona’s House, braced every weekend for hordes of Trump supporters, some with weapons, who swarmed his home and blared videos that called him a pedophile.“We had a daughter who was gravely ill,… Continue reading

Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel: Former President Donald Trump’s preferred candidate for governor won’t say whether he would certify the next presidential election if Trump makes another run for the White House and again loses the key battleground state of Wisconsin. Tim Michels,… Continue reading

WaPo explainer.

AP: A standoff over the security of voting machines between a Republican-leaning county in New Mexico and Democratic state officials that threatened to erupt into a wider political crisis was defused Friday after local commissioners voted to certify their election… Continue reading

WaPo: Two months after rioters stormed the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to help President Donald Trump stay in office, Virginia “Ginni” Thomas, the wife of Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, attended a gathering of right-wing activists where a… Continue reading

Important and nuanced column from Jack Goldsmith in the NYT: The evidence gathered by the Jan. 6 committee and in some of the federal cases against those involved in the Capitol attack pose for Attorney General Merrick Garland one of… Continue reading

You can follow along here on Twitter: Starting here with my live-tweeting the @January6thCmte hearings. My first point: the most important audience for these hearings are the 10+ Republican Senators who are poised to enact reforms to make the next… Continue reading

I have written this piece for the Washington Post’s Sunday Outlook. It begins: The special House committee hearings investigating the events surrounding the Jan. 6, 2021, insurrection — which begin Thursday night in prime time — may serve multiple purposes:… Continue reading

LAT: Supporters on the fringes of former President Trump’s circle explored seeking sweeping authority after the 2020 election to enlist armed private contractors to seize and inspect voting machines and election data with the assistance of U.S. marshals, according… Continue reading