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#DOJ tries to broaden its view of #Trump’s #Jan6 #pardons.
A Trump-appointed judge grilled a #Justice Dept prosecutor on DOJ’s change in position.
#criminal #law #insurrection #extremism #radicalization #DomesticTerrorism #StateSponsoredTerrorism #felon47 #PoliticalViolence #sturmabteilung #USpol
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/02/26/trump-january-6-pardon-judge-00206301
3 weeks ago, the #DOJ was emphatic: #Trump may have pardoned Kentuckian Dan Wilson for #crimes he committed at the Capitol on #Jan6, but that #pardon did not extend to his unrelated conviction for illegally storing #firearms at his home.
Then, on Tues, the US atty in DC [#EdMartin] reversed course, saying it had “received further clarity” about Trump’s true intent, which included pardoning Wilson for the #gun case. Prosecutors did not explain how they arrived at this new “clarity.”
The abrupt reversal prompted a federal judge — now weighing Wilson’s last-minute effort to avoid prison for the #gun conviction — to demand answers from the #Trump admin on Wed: Who exactly did Trump mean to #pardon when he signed his sweeping #clemency order last month, & for what #crimes?
During a 2-hr hearing in her federal courtroom, US District Judge Dabney Friedrich—a Trump appointee—grilled a #DOJ atty about the matter & appeared to leave with more questions than answers.
…At the heart of the controversy is the vague language of #Trump’s mass #pardons for #Jan6 *rioters*. He granted #clemency to anyone “convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021.”
Jan 6 defendants have repeatedly argued that the language is so broad it covers other #crimes that have nothing to do w/Jan 6 but were discovered during the vast #criminal probe stemming from the Capitol attack.
But #Trump himself did not speak to that issue when he signed the proclamation issuing the #pardons, & it has left his own admin & the courts struggling to divine what was in his head…. [
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Asst US Atty Blackwell said the #DOJ’s understanding of Trump’s #pardon had *evolved* in recent wks — but she did not say how or why. She said this shift was the reason DOJ had moved in recent days to drop a slew of other cases against #Jan6 defendants who were on the hook for other federal #felonies.
@Nonilex fuck the whole lot of them