Secretly get some huge number of armed National Guard soldiers (or equivalent) to accompany the pols to the building. Maybe 50? 75? 100?
Bring multiple non-civilians who are also armed (Nat Guards or a cops or whatever) who are locksmiths with tools to remove multiple locks as fast as possible. I have no idea - is there a tool that can remove locks in seconds?
Bring lots of bullhorns.
Give the guards an ultimatum “We are coming in… We will arrest anyone who interferes…” There has to be a fast time limit (30 minutes?) so Trump and his cronies can’t prolong things.
Then have the phalanx of soldiers with their long gun escort the locksmiths up to the door to remove multiple locks.
Open the doors.
.
Shock and awe, baby.
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Edit
For the “removing the lock stuff” see Thordros’s comment. I didn’t realize all that might be needed is a key and/or bumping.
Assuming we’re not talking about digital-only locks, they could probably just use a key. A lot of non-critical government buildings are keyed like absolute shit by non-locksmiths, so they’re cross-keyed like crazy, and use a lot of off-the-shelf solutions. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could just bump the shitty locks.
Oops. I forgot the expression “close enough for government work”. I was imaging quickly removing the retire lock with one go. It didn’t even occur to me there could be master keys and bumping (whatever that is). Duh.
Bumping is using a key cut specifically to fit into any keyway of its type, so that you can hit it with a rubber mallet and jiggle the pins enough to open the lock.
It’s one step above “just hit it really hard and see if it opens” in terms of difficulty. Which works on an absolutely absurd number of consumer-grade locks.
Knock, knock.
I assume every, single DC cop is armed.
What I would have done if I was the dems…
Secretly get some huge number of armed National Guard soldiers (or equivalent) to accompany the pols to the building. Maybe 50? 75? 100?
Bring multiple non-civilians who are also armed (Nat Guards or a cops or whatever) who are locksmiths with tools to remove multiple locks as fast as possible. I have no idea - is there a tool that can remove locks in seconds?
Bring lots of bullhorns.
Give the guards an ultimatum “We are coming in… We will arrest anyone who interferes…” There has to be a fast time limit (30 minutes?) so Trump and his cronies can’t prolong things.
Then have the phalanx of soldiers with their long gun escort the locksmiths up to the door to remove multiple locks.
Open the doors.
.
Shock and awe, baby.
-–
Edit
For the “removing the lock stuff” see Thordros’s comment. I didn’t realize all that might be needed is a key and/or bumping.
This is the lock picking lawyer, and today we’re breaking in to the department of education
Today on Sesame Street…
Assuming we’re not talking about digital-only locks, they could probably just use a key. A lot of non-critical government buildings are keyed like absolute shit by non-locksmiths, so they’re cross-keyed like crazy, and use a lot of off-the-shelf solutions. I wouldn’t be surprised if you could just bump the shitty locks.
Oops. I forgot the expression “close enough for government work”. I was imaging quickly removing the retire lock with one go. It didn’t even occur to me there could be master keys and bumping (whatever that is). Duh.
Bumping is using a key cut specifically to fit into any keyway of its type, so that you can hit it with a rubber mallet and jiggle the pins enough to open the lock.
It’s one step above “just hit it really hard and see if it opens” in terms of difficulty. Which works on an absolutely absurd number of consumer-grade locks.