...Terrorism is a nebulous legal concept, and related statutes have historically been used to target Black and brown communities and environmental activists — rarely ever used to prosecute far-right extremists, a 2019 investigation by The Intercept found. Civil liberties advocates say that lawmakers looking to hold right-wing extremists accountable need only to enforce laws already on the books, not create new ones. “Anyone familiar with the scope of surveillance and targeting of Black political dissent or Muslim communities knows that law enforcement has all the tools it needs to aggressively disrupt and hold accountable those who planned and participated in the storming of the Capitol,” Diala Shamas, a staff attorney with the Center for Constitutional Rights, told Intercept reporter Alex Emmons. ...

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