Jan. 6 U.S. Capitol Video Footage ‘Can and Should be Released,’ Judicial Watch Says in Legal Filing

The more than 14,000 hours of surveillance video footage from Jan. 6 held by U.S. Capitol Police cannot be hidden under a cloak of “sovereign immunity” and should be released to the public because it represents “an extraordinary moment in our history,” Judicial Watch argues in a recent legal filing in U.S. District Court. “Far from routine surveillance footage, the requested video footage is a unique and critical record of an extraordinary moment in our history,&rdq...