Time is running out. The justice department must indict Trump | Laurence H Tribe and Dennis Aftergut

If Trump or any of the likely Republican nominees win in 2024, they will immediately move to protect those who attempted to overturn the 2020 election

On Tuesday CNN reported that key January 6 texts have been erased by officials of Donald Trump's defense department in addition to homeland security and the Secret Service. Not even a clueless Hamlet could avoid smelling something rotten in the state of Denmark".

With the growing list of deletions, there is a whole new criminal conspiracy to investigate: one to destroy evidence of the grave federal crimes already under investigation. Nothing so focuses the prosecutorial mind or underscores the need to accelerate a criminal investigation as evidence that the investigation's target may have plotted to erase the proof of his wrongdoing that is needed to hold him accountable.