U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rebuked President Donald Trump 's blanket pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in a new court filing. Newsweek reached out to the White House via email and Judge Kollar-Kotelly via the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for comment.
Several prominent judges who oversaw cases related to the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection publicly tore into President Donald Trump Wednesday for his sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 of the rioters. Included in the group was Judge Tanya Chutkan,
The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood,
A federal judge this week had choice words after Donald Trump's sweeping pardon freeing all the rioters charged for the events on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol.
A federal judge who oversaw several trials for January 6 rioters has a furious response to President Donald Trump's decision pardoning 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol, Politico reported on Wednesday.
President Donald Trump’s pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol “will not change the truth of what happened” that day, a Washington federal judge wrote in an early response from the judiciary to the sweeping order.
While dismissing cases, judges who have overseen the prosecutions made clear that the orders did nothing to change the reality of the attack on the Capitol.
The judge is the first to speak out after Trump’s sweeping clemency and dismissals of more than 1,500 Jan. 6 cases.
In the days since President Donald Trump handed down pardons and commutations for the more than 1,500 of his supporters who participated in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol, federal judges in the U.S.
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was also handling Trump’s coup attempt case, said the pardons would not change “the historical record.”
The House on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that requires the detainment of unauthorized migrants accused of theft and violent crimes, marking the first legislation that President Donald Trump can sign as Congress, with some bipartisan support, swiftly moved in line with his plans to crackdown on illegal immigration.
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump's mass pardons for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol “will not change the truth of what happened” in the nation's capital four years ago, a federal judge wrote Wednesday as she dismissed one of nearly 1,600 cases stemming from the attack by a mob of Trump supporters.