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Guest Essay

By Jamie Raskin

Mr. Raskin, who represents Maryland’s Eighth Congressional District, is the ranking member of the House Judiciary Committee. He was the lead prosecutor in the second impeachment trial of President Trump.

Tuesday is a heavy day for the police officers who fought to put down the bloody insurrection at the Capitol five years ago. It is also a solemn day for the F.B.I. agents and federal prosecutors who worked the largest criminal investigation in American history to bring the members of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers and all the other police-attacking rioters to justice.

Five years after Jan. 6, 2021, we are still caught up in a struggle between forces who are willing to use authoritarian violence outside the Constitution to take and........

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