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Menace to democracy: The January 6th hearings

The Intelligence from The Economist

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The committee investigating the storming of the capital held two public hearings this week. The third, which took place yesterday, focused on the intense pressure campaign levied against vice president mike pense to unilaterally overturn the election results. We learn that an outside law professor named john eastman advanced a pretty cooke theory that the vice president could basically decide on his own who the next president ought to be. And what is sentience anyway?

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