Track which judges hear these cases and their rulings—judicial normalization of Jan 6 as legitimate protest rather than insurrection attempt would signal significant rule-of-law erosion.
This scores moderate on constitutional damage (A=37) due to rule-of-law inversion—participants in an attack on democratic processes seeking damages creates precedent for accountability reversal and normalizes violence as victimhood. However, it scores much higher as distraction (B=58) with strong outrage-bait, media-friendliness, and strategic timing during a week packed with substantive constitutional threats (birthright citizenship review, DEI purges). The victim-reversal narrative is a documented pattern.