The Associated Press has spent more than three years tracking the nearly 1,500 Capitol riot cases brought by the Justice Department.
AP reporters have reviewed hours of video footage and thousands of pages of court documents. They have sat through dozens of court hearings and trials for the rioters who descended on the Capitol and temporarily halted the certification of President Joe Biden’s victory.
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