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Perhaps there will be superseding indictments but I worry greatly that the insurrectionists who've been arrested so far are being undercharged.
If you break into the Capitol armed (doesn't have to be guns) and rifle through congressional offices there are basically a million crimes you can be charged with. Way more than simple trespass. Many of the indictments amount to, went into prohibited area, stole a chair.
3/ This was a violent insurrection aimed at the seat of government with the intent of overturning a presidential election. A core of the insurrectionists wanted to take congressional leaders hostage. If you don't send a strong signal you'll get much, much worse.
4/ Again, there are so many potential crimes it wouldn't be hard to overcharge. But you have to send a message that there are serious consequences for these actions. You also need to charge to capture the fact that the actors threatened the continuity of government and
5/ led to at least 5 fatalities.
6/ There are numerous videos showing attacks on Capitol Police officers that could be construed as attempted murder, certainly violent assault. Not seeing those yet. Hopefully, it's pending building the cases. But they strode out of the Capitol cocky and thinking they won ...
7/ It's up to the criminal justice system to show them otherwise. John Walker Lindh was a dipshit kid who went on a Jihad safari in Afghanistan and had the serious misfortune of showing up right as 9/11 was happening. He didn't really have anything to do with anything tied ...
8/ to the US but he was there and signing up as a Jihadist for a group that did launch a devastating attack on the US. He was charged with crimes that amounted to three life sentences. He pled down to 20 years. Storming the seat of government to overturn a free and fair ...
9/ election and at least in some cases planning to execute members of the line of succession of the US government is making war on the United States. Charge appropriately.
