A piece on the Politico site about the trial of one of the Jan. 6th insurrectionists reports that the judge speculated about the criminal culpability of one who tried to bully Mike Pence into throwing the election his way. The report observed: “The in-court discussion of Trump’s potential criminal culpability in the Capitol riot raised a nagging and uncomfortable question for the Justice Department: whether it is making a serious effort to investigate whether the former president committed any crimes in connection with the events of Jan. 6.”

I and many other Americans are weary and suspicious of the failure of the Justice Department to take serious action against Trump, the known leader of a criminal conspiracy against the United States. I know that the mill-wheels of justice can be expected to grind slowly, and especially in anything that has to do with Trump. But isn’t it time to make an effort to speed up those wheels, time for Trump, not some one of his hangers-on, to be thoroughly investigated and then prosecuted on the basis of the evidence of criminal conspiracy that a thorough investigation will surely reveal?

Trump’s plot was not just another Trumpy-being-Trumpy peccadillo, but was a crime by a would-be dictator trying to seize control of the country.