Which Jan. 6 defendants could see pardons?

[mystery-ak]

Which Jan. 6 defendants could see pardons?
By
Ashley Oliver
November 19, 2024 6:00 am
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President-elect Donald Trump has promised to carry out a large-scale pardon operation when he takes office, which could gift clean slates to hundreds of defendants who participated in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

While Trump has been largely mum on the specifics of the plan, his transition team, lawyers involved with the Jan. 6 cases, and legal experts have signaled that they anticipate at least some of the 1,500 defendants who face charges receiving relief.

Trump spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt, the president-elect’s incoming White House press secretary, said in a statement provided to the Washington Examiner that Trump “will make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis.”

Meanwhile, Trump himself has promised that a “large portion” of the defendants, whom he has described as “hostages,” will receive his clemency.

Conservative lawyer Andy McCarthy, a former federal prosecutor, told the Washington Examiner that he expects that the process will run through the Office of the Pardon Attorney at the Justice Department. However, he added, Trump’s attorney general could make “different arrangements.”

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[DefiantMassRINO]

It depends on the crime ... assault and battery against law enforcement, no.  Illegal weapons possesion - no.

Destruction, defacement, theft, or tresspass upon Federal property, their sentences should be commuted, but their convictions should not be vacated.

You can't maintain a civil society if mob violence is not punished.  It doesn't matter if it was our mob or their mob.  The mob is what the Founders feared most.

[GtHawk]

It depends on the crime ... assault and battery against law enforcement, no.  Illegal weapons possesion - no.

Destruction, defacement, theft, or tresspass upon Federal property, their sentences should be commuted, but their convictions should not be vacated.

You can't maintain a civil society if mob violence is not punished.  It doesn't matter if it was our mob or their mob.  The mob is what the Founders feared most.

Why shouldn’t the ones that were charged with assault and battery or weapons charges be pardoned, after all none of the BLM or Antifa members got any penalties even if they were arrested and charged. And how many of the J6 defendants have been held in third world country conditions for years?

[mountaineer]

Daniel Horowitz
@RMConservative
Right now, the DC federal court is sentencing J6ers (yes, 4 years later) at breakneck speed. 21 were sentenced last week plus 2 new trials. Trump should put out a video pre-emptively announcing that he will fire Matthew Graves on January 20 and that his replacement will place a hold on all prosecutions.

This is needed NOW because it would have the effect of  allowing attorneys to ask for a continuance and postponing trials.
8:33 AM · Nov 25, 2024