Sen. JD Vance, R-Ohio, in a letter Wednesday to Attorney General Merrick Garland, raises concerns about a recent Washington Post op-ed warning that a second Trump presidency would become a dictatorship. Vance's concerns are about not the potential dictatorship, mind you, but about the part of the opinion piece where the author speculates about what form resisting that hypothetical dictatorship might take.
"Based on my review of public charging documents that the Department of Justice has filed in courts of law, I suspect that one or both of you might characterize this article as an invitation to 'insurrection,' a manifestation of criminal 'conspiracy,' or an attempt to bring about civil war," Vance wrote.
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