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Mother Jones featured Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman in "What Criminal Charges May Await the Capitol Mob—and the Politicians Who Incited It"
Mother Jones featured Haub Law Professor Bennett Gershman in "What Criminal Charges May Await the Capitol Mob—and the Politicians Who Incited It"
Bennett Gershman, a law professor law at Pace University who served as a prosecutor in the Manhattan District Attorney’s office and a special prosecutor in the New York State Anti-Corruption Office, started off by listing some of the obvious offenses, such as unlawful assembly, that were likely committed. But “this goes to a scale that is so far beyond just simple protest or demonstration,” he said. “This is mob violence against persons and property.”
“These people were engaging in insurrection against our democracy—against the Constitution,” he added. “So I would look carefully at terroristic crimes and physical violence in pursuit of terroristic objectives.” Gershman said he’d need to go back and study the language of the treason statute before ruling out treason as a charge.
