Katherine Miller joined Times Opinion almost two years ago, and in that time she has written powerful stories about the considerable overhang Donald Trump's presidency has had on the Biden years. This includes a portrait of Liz Cheney as a singular anti-Trump figure, a look at Kevin McCarthy's failed attempt to retain the House speakership and an assessment of Nikki Haley's run for the 2024 Republican presidential nomination. Through these articles and others, she has examined the ways in which Trump's first term in office, including the events of Jan. 6, 2021, have changed American politics. In an essay published this week, Katherine revisited the question of Jan. 6's long shadow: What impact will that day — and the ongoing legal debate over who was responsible for it — have on November's election? One reason that question is so hard to answer is that the legal system hasn't yet decided whether Trump committed a crime on Jan. 6. As Katherine writes: "A trial was possibly the last remaining avenue for a public re-examination of Jan. 6, certainly before the election, and possibly for years. Everyone has instead lived through an intense period of anticipating that consideration and its potential consequence, without getting it."
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The system isn’t built for Jan. 6
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