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Feb 2021
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Capitol punishment

Vox
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Vox’s Andrew Prokop previews the historic second impeachment trial of former President Donald Trump. Law professor Alan Rozenshtein explains what the Justice Department can and cannot do to prosecute insurrectionists.

Transcript at vox.com/todayexplained.

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