The Justice Department Erases History; Lawfare Restores It

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Last week, the Justice Department deleted thousands of press releases related to the Jan. 6 insurrection and other matters. Here they are.

Any effort to erase history and replace it with lies warrants concerted pushback. In this case, the department has deleted a large repository of accessible public information about the storming of the Capitol and the individuals who did it. That data, unlike the court documents that lay beneath them, are in lay language. They are easily digestible by anyone interested. And they contain fair-minded summaries of evidence that—in the overwhelming majority of cases—was either proven in court beyond a reasonable doubt or pleaded to by defendants who ultimately conceded their truth.

There’s a broad principle here, and we want to state it very clearly: If the administration purges rule-of-law-sensitive materials from government websites, we will do everything in our power to restore them on Lawfare.

https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-justice-department-erases-history--lawfare-restores-it

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