Tag Archives: Capitol Riots

The Associated Press reports: Ryan Kelley [photo] thought he had a good shot at becoming Michigan’s governor in 2022. Three years later, Kelley says, people ask him all the time to run for governor again. In today’s America, where Trump returned to the White House and within hours pardoned some 1,500 Jan. 6 rioters, Kelley’s two-month prison sentence for his …

Courthouse News reports: In a Supreme Court application docketed Tuesday, the group of four Seattle police officers explained that they had attended Trump’s “Stop the Steal” rally in D.C. on Jan. 6, 2021. Just hours after Trump’s remarks at that event, a group of his supporters breached the U.S. Capitol in an attempt to halt the congressional certification of then-President-elect …

CNN reports: Five former prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol are urging the disciplinary office governing lawyers in Washington, DC, to open an investigation into President Donald Trump’s controversial pick to be the district’s top prosecutor. The filing is the latest turn in the nomination of Ed Martin to …

The Hill reports: Vice President JD Vance on Sunday responded to a fire at Pennsylvania Gov. Josh Shapiro’s (D) residence, calling it “really disgusting violence.” Vance wasn’t the only member of the Trump administration to weigh in on the fire, with Attorney General Pam Bondi saying she was “deeply relieved that Governor Shapiro and his family are safe, thankful for …

“It is a distinct honor and privilege to have been given the Defender of Liberty award at the Liberty Counsel Gala. I was a political prisoner who spent four months in solitary confinement for merely being inside the Capitol on January 6th. What motivates me to continue our fight is the vision of America First and the MAGA movement. President Trump …

Axios reports: The Trump administration has withdrawn the nomination of Kathleen Sgamma to be director of the Bureau of Land Management, Senate Energy and Natural Resources Chairman Mike Lee said Thursday. The withdrawal of Sgamma, longtime president of the Western Energy Alliance, is a sudden setback for the White House hoping to lean on the land bureau to expand fossil …

Politico reports: Jan. 6 defendants whose convictions were wiped out by President Donald Trump are entitled to a refund of restitution payments they made to cover damage to the Capitol, the Justice Department said Tuesday. The department’s determination could result in hundreds of payouts from the federal government intended to cover the cost of repairing about $3 million in damage …

Politico reports: A federal appeals court has rejected the Justice Department’s claim that President Donald Trump’s pardon of crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 riot at the Capitol is so broad that it sweeps in convictions for illegal possession of weapons five months later. The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals panel split, 2-1, in turning down Kentucky resident Dan …

The Daily Beast reports: A Capitol rioter who was pardoned by President Donald Trump for his participation in the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection is asking the court to drop unrelated child pornography charges against him. In a filing with the U.S. District Court for the Western District of North Carolina, David Daniel argued that the pardon “requires dismissal” of his …

CBS News reports: The pardons of more than 1,500 rioters who seized the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 are expected to leave taxpayers on the hook for most of the damage, cleanup and costs of the insurrection. Although federal judges ordered hundreds of the defendants to make restitution to the federal government to offset the costs of the repairs …

Reuters reports: The U.S. Justice Department has moved to shield President Donald Trump from civil lawsuits by police and Democratic lawmakers seeking to hold him responsible for violence during the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol by his supporters. In court filings late on Thursday, department lawyers told U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta to replace Trump as a …

The Huffington Post reports: A man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack announced Wednesday that he plans to run for a U.S. Senate seat. “Today I am blessed by God to officially announce my candidacy for US Senate in the great State of Florida!!” Edward “Jake” Lang posted on X. Trump …

NBC News reports: Assistant U.S. Attorney Sean McCauley resigned from the Justice Department this week, calling his work on Jan. 6 cases the “opportunity of a lifetime” and the attorneys within the now-defunct Capitol Siege Section of the U.S. Attorney’s Office some of “the finest, brightest attorneys in the country” who created a historic record of the violent attack on …

The New York Times reports: President Trump’s family business sued Capital One on Friday for “unjustifiably terminating” more than 300 of its bank accounts after the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, the latest sign that the president and his allies are seeking retribution against those who once shunned them. In a complaint filed in state court in Florida, …

Washington DC’s CBS affiliate reports: The D.C. Attorney General’s Office (OAG) moved to dismiss a years-old civil case Friday against members of the Oath Keepers, Proud Boys and other individuals involved in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol – saying the city was unlikely to ever recover enough even from a successful verdict to justify expending more resources. …

Raw Story reports: Attorney General Pam Bondi’s Department of Justice argues that President Donald Trump’s pardon covered grenades and stolen classified information found at the home of Jan. 6 defendant Jeremy Brown, a member of the Oath Keepers. In a 2023 press release, the U.S. Attorney’s Office, Middle District of Florida, said Brown was sentenced to prison for over seven …

“The J6-ers are here at CPAC! [Standing ovation.] From the medium-high to high-security prisons! And lemme tell you something else. I’m talking to Ambassador Ric Grenell and the J6 Choir is gonna play the Kennedy Center! [Audience roars.] Honor their families! And in fact, I got an idea, the night that they play and opens the new Kennedy Center – …

The Wall Street Journal reports: Elon Musk’s X has agreed to pay about $10 million to settle a lawsuit that Donald Trump brought against the company and its former chief executive, according to people familiar with the matter. The agreement makes X the second social-media platform to settle litigation that Trump filed when the companies deplatformed him over his role …

Law & Crime reports: An accused Jan. 6 rioter who allegedly threatened lawmakers and showed up to Barack Obama‘s home in Washington, D.C., back in 2023 — toting guns, ammunition and supplies for an explosive device — wants his criminal charges for those incidents dropped, saying President Donald Trump‘s executive order pardoning Capitol attackers also covers “conduct related to” the …

The Washington Post reports: Candidates for top national security positions in the Trump administration have faced questions that appear designed to determine whether they have embraced the president’s false claims about the outcome of the 2020 election and its aftermath, according to people familiar with cases of such screening. The questions asked of several current and former officials up for …