Acting AG Rosen Must Bring the Full Weight of the Law Against Today’s Violence at the Capitol
Numerous reports say that pro-Trump protesters have invaded the Capitol to make it impossible for Vice President Pence (who has been evacuated) to count the electoral votes. One woman has been shot, although the specific circumstances are unclear at this hour.
This is intolerable. If the rule of law means anything, it means that we forswear violence and intimidation in favor of peaceful persuasion and legal process. I understand that many on Trump’s side feel urgently, and not entirely without basis, that the election was infected with fraud. But adherence to law is so hard precisely because its value is so great: It demands that we restrain even our most urgent feelings in favor of peaceful (though often maddening) process. The alternative to the rule of law is the rule of the jungle.
The upshot is that Acting AG Rosen must see to it that the full weight of the law be brought against the Capitol invaders. If intimidation and force are not acceptable for BLM and Antifa — and they aren’t — they are not acceptable for anyone else, either. Let the prosecutions begin.
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