'Officers who defended Capitol on Jan. 6 call plaque installation illegal'
(MS NOW) "You don’t have to be a lawyer to see why a plaque honoring officers who defended the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6 was installed only after years of delay, at around 4 a.m. over the weekend. The Donald Trump-led Republican Party has no interest in promptly or fully honoring those who fought to repel the Trump-backed mob that day in 2021."
"Quite the opposite: A priority of Trump’s second term has been trying to erase that history...Yet the memorial’s belated, shady installation wasn’t only morally insufficient...It was legally insufficient, too."
"In the response to Friedrich’s question, Dunn and Hodges said the plaque’s installation — in the interior of a ground-floor entrance, where the public isn’t allowed — violated both the letter and the spirit of the law."
"As to the letter, they pointed out that the law requires the memorial to be displayed on the 'western front' of the Capitol, which, they maintained, means an exterior part of the building. Therefore, they argued, the installation 'in a part of the Capitol hidden from the public fails to comply' with the law. 'That Congress intended to install the plaque on the western exterior of the Capitol makes sense: that is both an area accessible to the general public, and the site of the most violent attacks on January 6, 2021,' they wrote."
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