Lindsay Beyerstein

Lindsay Beyerstein covers legal affairs, health care and politics for the Editorial Board. An award-winning documentary filmmaker, she’s a judge for the Sidney Hillman Foundation. Find her @beyerstein.
Even if it had been stolen, fomenting insurrection is still illegal.
If ordinary goons are guilty of disrupting an official proceeding, then the ringleaders who incited them are guilty as well.
The con keeps rolling, even if the trucks do not
Trudeau has finally acted decisively.
If any other government employee were caught with a trove of classified documents, they would face criminal investigation.
Meanwhile, the GOP is rewriting that horrible day’s history.
Similarities in language and formatting between the fake certificates suggests a far-reaching conspiracy orchestrated at the national level.
In a group of nearly 60 people facing serious prison time, at least some of them will be willing to implicate the higher ups to save themselves.
Coverage of the latest from the J6 committee lacks urgency.
Let’s hope he stays true to his vision.