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https://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/20/judges-trump-jan6-clemency-warnings-00195496“The rewriting of the history of Jan. 6, 2021, is incredibly disturbing,” Judge Beryl Howell said
U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan says she has often reassured police officers traumatized by the violence of Jan. 6, 2021, that “the rule of law still applies.”
But as President-elect Donald Trump — once a defendant in Chutkan’s very court — prepares to retake the White House and pardon many Jan. 6 perpetrators, Chutkan now says, “I’m not sure I can do that very convincingly these days.”
Chutkan’s comments, delivered this week as she sentenced another member of the Jan. 6 mob to eight months in prison, are emblematic of the increasing alarm and dismay expressed by federal judges in Washington, D.C., at the likelihood Trump will grant clemency to people they view as responsible for a grave crime against democracy.
In extraordinary but little-watched court proceedings since Election Day, judges appointed by presidents of both parties have emphasized the need for accountability for the people who stormed the Capitol in an attempt to derail the certification of Joe Biden’s 2020 victory. These judges have sounded dire warnings about the fate of the country if the lessons of the 2020 election go unlearned, and they are bluntly bracing for a turbulent start to the second Trump presidency.
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This cadre of DC-based federal judges have been operating as a sort of "Star Chamber," going well beyond the law in convicting and sentencing the January 6th trespassers, and grotesquely violating the 8th Amendment in the process. The worst of these are Howell, Lamberth, Walton, Jackson, Mehta, Friedrich, and Chutkan.
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Judges push back as Trump’s return sparks defiance from Jan. 6 defendantshttps://www.politico.com/news/2024/12/06/jan-6-defendants-defiant-00193115
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