Showing off your badge at the insurrection. Federal agents on Tuesday arrested Mark Ibrahim, a special agent for the Drug Enforcement Agency, who they say entered the U.S. Capitol grounds on Jan. 6, repeatedly showed his badge and gun to insurrectionists, and falsely claimed to be there to help the FBI. The Washington Post More: So far, in court documents filed on behalf of their clients, lawyers for alleged insurrectionists have blamed “Donald Trump, the media, naivete, trauma, unemployment, the pandemic, Washington elites, their clients’ childhoods and the singular nature of the event itself.” The Washington Post

More questions about the plot to kidnap Michigan Gov. Gretchen Whitmer. Federal and state police swooped down last September on a group of right-wing extremists who they said had concocted a plan to take Whitmer from her vacation home. The case now represents one of the most significant domestic terrorism prosecutions of the past 20 years. The feds have acknowledged the use of at least 12 confidential informants in the investigation, and there is now evidence that those informants may have played more than just a passive role in the alleged conspiracy. The defendants, for their part, say they were set up. BuzzFeed News

Another week, talk of another massive opioid settlement. The nation’s three largest opioid distributors and Johnson & Johnson are poised to accept a $26 billion settlement that would effectively resolve thousands of lawsuits brought by officials in communities ravaged by the drug epidemic nationwide. The deal, orchestrated by 13 state attorneys general, could be announced as early as this week. It also includes $2 billion in attorneys’ fees. The New York Times More: The deal would require the approval of thousands of stakeholders across the country; McKesson, Cardinal Health and AmerisourceBergen would pay $21 billion over 18 years; Johnson & Johnson would pay $5 billion over nine years. The Washington Post

A culture, a name, a way of life, just “so casually taken away.” As Canada reels from the discovery of mass graves at schools where indigenous children were forced to live, U.S. Interior Department officials are slowly working their way through America’s own notorious past. Last week, the remains of nine Lakota children who died at a federal boarding school in Carlisle, Pennsylvania, over 100 years ago were disinterred and buried in a ceremony on a tribal reservation in South Dakota. Searches for more bodies are underway at two former schools in Colorado, including one that reopened as Fort Lewis College. The New York Times

Former entertainment mogul Harvey Weinstein, now convicted of rape, was flown Tuesday from a New York prison to California, where he faces 11 counts of sexual assault. Defense lawyers had fought to delay his extradition. USA Today More: In California, he is accused of assaulting five women from 2013 to 2017. Los Angeles Times

In a crowded Texas courtroom Tuesday, a trial judge began taking testimony in yet another round of Rodney Reed’s high-profile capital case. Defense attorneys say they’ve uncovered new evidence that exonerates their client of a 1996 murder. Prosecutors say Reed is guilty and should remain on death row. Austin American-Statesman TMP Context: When celebrities weigh in on the fate of death row prisoners. The Marshall Project

“They took something from me.” For some victims of police brutality, like Vanessa Peoples in Colorado, excessive force settlements don’t ease the pain. Denver Post

Federal prosecutors say that a Rhode Island prison guard participated in a scheme to smuggle Suboxone, used to treat people with opioid addiction, into the Donald W. Wyatt Detention Facility . Boston Globe

A Georgia judge this week formally exonerated Dennis Perry, who spent 20 years in prison for a double murder in 1985. Perry was released from prison last summer after DNA evidence linked another man to the crimes. Atlanta Journal-Constitution

The evolution of the true crime genre. A soiled brand morphs into a crusade for retributive justice and a historical reckoning of violence against women. The New York Review of Books

The “Tax Cheat” Party. Congressional Republicans move to scuttle a deal that would have bolstered the IRS’s revenue operations to raise money for infrastructure. Slate

Truth, if not reconciliation. The Select Committee that will investigate the January insurrection has to aggressively seek out evidence and testimony, no matter how hard Republicans try to stymie the process. Lawfare

Confirm David Chipman already. Gun zealots say otherwise, but he’s the right choice to lead the beleaguered Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives. Boston Globe

“Buying a gun isn’t like signing up for a gym membership.” Allowing teenagers to smoke or drink is one thing. Allowing 18-year-olds to bear arms is another. No one under 21 should be able to own or carry a gun. Los Angeles Times

“If you will help us, we can help you.” Detectives in Philadelphia reportedly offered jailed prisoners drugs and sex in exchange for their testimony in murder cases. Former prisoners say the practice helped convict innocent defendants. Philadelphia Inquirer

Seven years after Colorado legalized pot. Arrest rates for marijuana-related offenses are down, but racial disparities in policing and prosecuting pot offenses have persisted, a new state study concludes. Experts say the data is too incomplete to be conclusive, but Black Coloradans are much more likely to be busted for pot than their White counterparts. Colorado Sun

The war on drugs morphs into a war on guns in Massachusetts, where police officers from a discredited drug enforcement unit get transferred to a new gun violence unit. Reason

A sour note. A federal judge in Tennessee last week undermined a dubious case brought by a Trump-era prosecutor who tried to convict a musician for posing for a promotional photo in front of a police car with a fake Molotov cocktail behind his back. HuffPost

“So many women have died at the hands of their ex-partner.” The Biden administration is moving, slowly, to formalize protections for asylum-seekers who are victims of domestic violence in their home countries. The Fuller Project