UC Davis law professors examine attack on U.S. Capitol

Three UC Davis law professors engaged in a public discussion Wednesday on “Insurrection and the Rule of Law,” exploring the potential legal, political and global repercussions of the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol. Afra Afsharipour, senior associate dean at the School of Law, moderated the panel that drew an online audience of more than 500 people. Supporters of President Donald Trump who stormed the Capitol could face “very serious charges of seditious conspiracy and conceivably even treason,” said Professor Carlton F.W. Larson, a constitutional law scholar and expert on the law of treason. Seditious conspiracy is a federal crime...