Phase 7 · Citizen Analysis
CITIZEN ANALYSIS RECORD
A structured way to examine major January 6 questions while keeping evidence, allegations, government findings, judicial holdings and civic judgments in their proper categories.
Assessment standard
Certainty should match the record
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Fourteen analysis files
Questions for evidence-first civic inquiry
J6-A-0001
Did the 2020 election challenges establish a legal basis to change the presidential outcome?
Related evidence: J6-E-0001 · J6-E-0002 · J6-E-0003 · J6-E-0004
Analytical discipline: Distinguish procedural dispositions from merits rulings and preserve the certified Electoral College result as the official outcome.
J6-A-0002
What authority did the Vice President have on January 6?
Related evidence: J6-E-0002
Analytical discipline: Distinguish the constitutional and statutory framework in force in 2021 from later reforms.
J6-A-0003
What caused the breach of the U.S. Capitol?
Related evidence: J6-E-0006 · J6-E-0007 · J6-E-0008
Analytical discipline: Use synchronized chronology and direct evidence; sequence alone does not prove causation.
J6-A-0004
What responsibility did President Donald Trump bear?
Related evidence: J6-E-0007 · J6-E-0010
Analytical discipline: Keep political judgment, congressional findings, criminal allegations and judicial holdings distinct.
J6-A-0005
Did federal and local agencies have sufficient warning?
Related evidence: J6-E-0005 · J6-E-0006 · J6-E-0008
Analytical discipline: Compare information available beforehand with later oversight findings.
J6-A-0006
Why was the Capitol not better protected?
Related evidence: J6-E-0005 · J6-E-0006 · J6-E-0008
Analytical discipline: Separate planning, intelligence, staffing, command and mutual-aid questions from hindsight.
J6-A-0007
Was the National Guard response unnecessarily delayed?
Related evidence: J6-E-0008
Analytical discipline: Separate request, authorization, mission approval, mobilization, deployment and arrival.
J6-A-0008
How should congressional objections to electoral votes be understood?
Related evidence: J6-E-0002 · J6-E-0003 · J6-E-0004
Analytical discipline: Distinguish the lawful congressional objection process from violence or unlawful entry.
J6-A-0009
How should competing elector documents be understood?
Related evidence: J6-E-0001 · J6-E-0007
Analytical discipline: Compare documents, representations and participant conduct rather than applying a single characterization without examining the facts.
J6-A-0010
Were January 6 defendants treated fairly?
Related evidence: J6-E-0009 · J6-E-0010
Analytical discipline: Evaluate defendants by individual conduct, charge, disposition, sentence, appeal and later developments.
J6-A-0011
What did later Supreme Court decisions actually change?
Related evidence: J6-E-0010
Analytical discipline: Apply each holding only to the legal question the Court actually decided.
J6-A-0012
How should later executive clemency be understood?
Related evidence: J6-E-0009
Analytical discipline: Preserve the historical charge, plea, verdict and sentence while separately recording later clemency.
J6-A-0013
What do the pipe-bomb investigation and later developments establish?
Related evidence: Separate evidence file required
Analytical discipline: Do not infer relationships unsupported by authenticated evidence.
J6-A-0014
What should America learn from January 6?
Related evidence: J6-E-0001 · J6-E-0005 · J6-E-0007 · J6-E-0008 · J6-E-0009 · J6-E-0010
Analytical discipline: Separate normative civic lessons from historical factual findings and identify the evidence supporting each premise.