# The Jan 6 Insurrection: what crimes were committed, what does accountability look like? **URL:** \ **Category:** Politics & Elections\ **Created:** [January 5, 2022, 4:01pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jan-6-insurrection-what-crimes-were-committed-what-does-accountability-look-like/957269 "2022-01-05T16:01:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 30
**Author:** ![Atamasama](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/atamasama/32/12961_2.png) [@Atamasama](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Atamasama)\ **Post date:** [January 7, 2022, 1:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jan-6-insurrection-what-crimes-were-committed-what-does-accountability-look-like/957269/30 "2022-01-07T01:46:13Z")
> [@Akaj](#): > > Well, damn. What would you suggest is the most severe crime with which the people who hatched this travesty can plausibly be charged? I am not a lawyer but I would think Seditious Conspiracy is plausible. > **[18 U.S. Code ยง 2384 - Seditious conspiracy](https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/2384)** > If two or more persons in any State or Territory, or in any place subject to the jurisdiction of the United States, conspire to overthrow, put down, or to destroy by force the Government of the United States, or to levy war against them, or to oppose by force the authority thereof, or by force to prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of any law of the United States, or by force to seize, take, or possess any property of the United States contrary to the authority thereof, they shall each be fined under this title or imprisoned not more than twenty years, or both. That seems pretty close to what happened on January 6, 2021. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-jan-6-insurrection-what-crimes-were-committed-what-does-accountability-look-like/957269)._