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Another branch of the alleged effort involved pressuring state officials — governors, secretaries of state, and election boards — to overturn or reexamine results they had already certified. Some phone calls from that period are already public. The indictment uses them to paint a picture of a coordinated push: calls, meetings, and messaging aimed at convincing state authorities to reject certified results or “find” votes to change them.

The obstruction charges are tied directly to the events leading up to January 6. Prosecutors argue that the intent was to disrupt the joint session of Congress. While the former president did not personally breach the Capitol, the indictment claims that his actions — and continual insistence that the certification could be stopped — played a central role in creating the environment that led to the riot.

The most unusual charge might be the conspiracy to violate civil rights. It’s an old law originally written to protect the voting rights of newly freed slaves after the Civil War. In this case, prosecutors say the alleged attempts to overturn lawful election results amounted to an effort to deprive millions of voters of the value of their ballots — a modern application of the same principle.