Friday, January 24, 2025

Federal Judges in Jan. 6 Cases Slam Trump's Pardons

A prominent federal judge on Wednesday ripped President Donald Trump's mass clemency for Jan. 6 rioters, saying the justification he offered in his proclamation " to correct an "injustice" and trigger a "national reconciliation" " was "flatly wrong" and a "revisionist myth."

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-- Philip Gourevitch (@pgourevitch.bsky.social) January 22, 2025 at 5:52 PM

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"No national injustice' occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election," U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell wrote in an eight-page order in the case of two Jan. 6 defendants who pleaded guilty to felonies.

"No process of national reconciliation' can begin when poor losers, whose preferred candidate loses an election, are glorified for disrupting a constitutionally mandated proceeding in Congress and doing so with impunity."

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U.S. District Judge Tanya Chutkan " who was slated to preside over Trump's own criminal prosecution for seeking to subvert the 2020 election before his 2024 victory ended the case " said Trump's mass pardons "cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake."

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U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said Trump's action could never change the "immutable" record of violence and heroism of law enforcement, which will remain enshrined in court records.

"Dismissal of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," Kollar-Kotelly wrote in a six-page order dismissing charges against Dominic Box, whom she had previously convicted of two felony counts for his role in the riot."

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A day that will live in infamy.

#1 | Posted by Corky at 2025-01-22 05:25 PM

Look at what MAGA filth replaced blood, sweat and tears with.

'Blood, feces, and terror'

www.rawstory.com

#2 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2025-01-22 07:58 PM

A corrupt Democrat judge said that? Shocker. Trump campaigned that he would do it, the people agreed and he kept his promise. So buzz off.

#3 | Posted by fishpaw at 2025-01-24 12:47 PM

Why is he corrupt? Because you don't like his opinion?

I think it's because that's a buzzword you don't understand.

#4 | Posted by Alexandrite at 2025-01-24 12:57 PM

A corrupt Democrat judge said that? Shocker. Trump campaigned that he would do it, the people agreed and he kept his promise. So buzz off.

#3 | Posted by fishpaw

Trumpland. Where NOT being corrupt means you're CORRUPT, and attempting to overthrow democracy means you're a PATRIOT.

#5 | Posted by SpeakSoftly at 2025-01-24 01:29 PM

Fishpoo calls a judge corrupt because he disagrees with him?

Shocking? No. Not really.

#6 | Posted by donnerboy at 2025-01-24 01:33 PM

Memo to you Oath Keepers, Proud Bois and other cosplayers out there: Federal judges are usually protected by US Marshals, who know how to shoot straight and take their role in this world very seriously. They don't play, so those cheap threats flowing out of your pie hole or greasy fingers had better not be acted upon...

#7 | Posted by catdog at 2025-01-24 01:34 PM

Trump campaigned that he would do it, the people agreed and he kept his promise.

What people? Certainly not the overall majority and I bet even the majority that voted for Trump.

Every poll shows overwhelmingly the pardons were a mistake.

If you buy into the rigged election only, do you buy into this.

#8 | Posted by brass30 at 2025-01-24 03:56 PM

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