A prominent local member of the Proud Boys joined four other leaders of the far-right extremist group in a lawsuit against the Department of Justice on Friday, demanding more than $100 million in damages over their convictions for participating in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol. Ethan Nordean, an Auburn man, was sentenced to 18 years in federal prison in 2023 after a jury convicted him on charges of seditious conspiracy and other crimes for his role in leading the pro-Trump mob that stormed the Capitol in an effort to block Congress' certification of the 2020 election results. Nordean, 34, was released this year after President Donald Trump issued a sweeping order pardoning and commuting the sentences of hundreds of people convicted of crimes in the Jan. 6 insurrection. In the federal lawsuit, filed Friday in federal court in Florida, Nordean and the other Proud Boy leaders allege the government's prosecution of them violated their constitutional rights.