Judges Handling January 6 Insurrection Cases Lash Out Against Trump’s Pardons
Protesters gather on the second day of pro-Trump events fueled by President Donald Trump's claims of fraud in an effort to overturn the 2020 election results before Congress finalizes them on Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington, D.C.
Federal judges presiding over the January 6, 2021, insurrection cases, including the one who had overseen charges against President Donald Trump himself, are excoriating his blanket pardons for all the people charged, particularly those previously convicted of violent attacks on police officers.
“No ‘national injustice’ occurred here, just as no outcome-determinative election fraud occurred in the 2020 presidential election,” wrote US District Judge Beryl Howell on Wednesday in the case of two men, one of whom was the founder of the Hawaii chapter of the militant group Proud Boys.
“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,” Howell wrote, as she dismissed charges that included assaulting a police officer.
Trump, within hours of taking the presidential oath Monday, set free nearly 1,600 of his followers who were charged for their actions on January 6 intended to keep him in power. That total........
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