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https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-president-news-01-21-25#cm66zac9e00053b6me5fppoqa(scroll down for story)
Philadelphia’s top prosecutor said Tuesday that he is exploring filing state charges against convicted January 6 rioters who were pardoned by President Donald Trump.
The comments from Larry Krasner, a Democrat and self-described progressive prosecutor, are the first indication that state and local law enforcement officials might try to push back against Trump’s mass clemency for his supporters who stormed the US Capitol in 2021.
Presidential pardons do not cover state offenses, but there would be significant legal hurdles for any state prosecution to move forward. During the first Trump administration, some efforts to charge allies like Paul Manafort in state court, after his federal prosecution for financial crimes that stemmed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, were rejected by judges because of the Constitution’s protections against double jeopardy.
Krasner said he is examining whether there is a legal path to file state charges against January 6 convicts who assaulted police or conspired with far-right extremist groups, like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. He said his office is reviewing federal charging documents to see what conduct may have been left out — and not covered by the pardons.
“To the extent the federal charging encompasses everything we’re talking about, then this argument probably fails, but I am very doubtful that it encompasses everything that we’re talking about,” Krasner told CNN in an interview on Tuesday. “You can have a state prosecution for conduct that was not fully encompassed in the federal prosecution.”
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