{"id":7033,"date":"2026-07-11T16:08:17","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:08:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7033"},"modified":"2026-07-11T16:08:17","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T16:08:17","slug":"judge-ends-jan-6-case-against-proud-boys-with-warning-about-trump-pardons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7033","title":{"rendered":"Judge ends Jan. 6 case against Proud Boys with warning about Trump pardons"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-7032\" height=\"683\" src=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b14f723f252c85695df6be4b1d905dfb-1024x683.jpg\" width=\"1024\" srcset=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b14f723f252c85695df6be4b1d905dfb-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b14f723f252c85695df6be4b1d905dfb-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b14f723f252c85695df6be4b1d905dfb-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b14f723f252c85695df6be4b1d905dfb-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/b14f723f252c85695df6be4b1d905dfb-2048x1365.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n<figcaption>Violent protesters, loyal to President Donald Trump, storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (John Minchillo\/AP)<\/figcaption>\n<\/figure>\n<p>A federal judge on Friday night granted the Justice Department\u2019s request to dismiss the seditious-conspiracy case against four top members of the Proud Boys who led a violent mob into the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7030\">South Africa World Cup midfielder Jayden Adams dies at the age of 25<\/a><\/p>\n<p>But in his ruling, U.S. District Judge Timothy J. Kelly gave a stark warning about President Donald Trump\u2019s efforts to lift penalties against those who instigated and carried out the storming of the Capitol. The attack \u2014 by the mob seeking to overturn Trump\u2019s loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election \u2014 left more than <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/local\/public-safety\/police-union-says-140-officers-injured-in-capitol-riot\/2021\/01\/27\/60743642-60e2-11eb-9430-e7c77b5b0297_story.html\" rel=\"\">140 police officers<\/a> injured and caused an estimated $3 million in damage.<\/p>\n<p>The judge indicated he was wiping out the Proud Boys\u2019 charges \u2014 against Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola \u2014 under protest, saying legal precedents left him no choice but to accede to the request by the Trump administration\u2019s prosecutors.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAs the Court has said many times, the attack on the Capitol on January 6, 2021 was a perilous event,\u201d wrote Kelly, who is a Trump appointee.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt was an attack on people, including police officers, many of whom were injured. It was an attack on a coordinate branch of government \u2014 Congress \u2014 that the Founders saw fit to give a place of primacy in Article I of the Constitution. And it was an attack on the Constitution\u2019s mechanism to facilitate the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Jan. 6 riot followed a rally where Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/interactive\/2021\/annotated-trump-speech-jan-6-capitol\/\" rel=\"\">repeated his false claims<\/a> that he won the 2020 election. As rioters rampaged through the Capitol, lawmakers were forced to evacuate, delaying the certification of Biden\u2019s victory for hours.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s ruling wipes out some of the most serious criminal charges from the riot, cementing Trump\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/17\/jan6-convictions-trump-pardons\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/politics\/2026\/04\/17\/jan6-convictions-trump-pardons\/\">bid to unravel the largest Justice Department investigation in U.S. history<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Trump <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-pardons-jan-6-defendants\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/01\/20\/trump-pardons-jan-6-defendants\/\">pardoned nearly all the rioters<\/a> \u2014 more than 1,500 \u2014 who were charged by the Justice Department in the wake of Jan. 6. But that blanket pardon, issued on the president\u2019s first day in office last year, did not extend to about a dozen leaders and prominent members of two extremist groups behind the violence, the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers.<\/p>\n<p>Those defendants were convicted of carrying out a seditious conspiracy against the United States or related offenses. Trump initially commuted their prison terms, stopping short of a full pardon. But this year, while those cases were being appealed, Justice Department officials filed legal papers to vacate the convictions altogether.<\/p>\n<p>The D.C. Circuit federal appeals court granted that request in May. U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro, a Trump ally who serves as the top federal prosecutor in D.C., then filed motions to dismiss the underlying charges in U.S. district court.<\/p>\n<p>Kelly said in his opinion on the Proud Boys case that judges are constrained to dismiss charges once prosecutors ask to drop them.<\/p>\n<p>Under Supreme Court precedent, prosecutors have \u201cexclusive authority and absolute discretion to decide whether to prosecute a case,\u201d and they may drop charges \u201cin the interests of justice\u201d even after defendants have been convicted.<\/p>\n<p>The moves by the Justice Department were unusual \u2014 prosecutors rarely ask to throw out guilty verdicts \u2014 and Pirro\u2019s office initially did not give detailed reasons for scrapping the highest-profile cases related to the Jan. 6 attack.<\/p>\n<p>In a brief court filing, a prosecutor in Pirro\u2019s office wrote only that the government \u201chas determined in its prosecutorial discretion that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio separately had his conviction vacated and charges dismissed last year, also at the Justice Department\u2019s request. Tarrio, who had been convicted of organizing members of his group, was not present at the Capitol on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Pezzola was acquitted at trial of the seditious conspiracy charge but convicted of assaulting a police officer and other offenses from the riot.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe took the worst they threw at us the raids, the solitary, the lies and we stood tall,\u201d Tarrio posted on X after the ruling was issued Friday night. \u201cTrump dropped the pardons and now the rest is crumbling. Justice is SERVED!\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Before dismissing the set of charges against the Oath Keepers, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta, an appointee of President Barack Obama, asked Pirro\u2019s office to supply detailed reasons for its request. Mehta has not yet issued a ruling on the Oath Keepers\u2019 charges.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7029\">Sinner regained his timing on a hard court before his demolition of Djokovic on Wimbledon\u2019s grass<\/a><\/p>\n<p>A prosecutor, G.A. Massucco-LaTaif, said Trump\u2019s blanket pardon proclamation also directed the Justice Department to drop all pending charges stemming from the Jan. 6 attack. Prosecutors can no longer put any Jan. 6 defendants on trial and judges cannot effectively impose any prison time, he wrote in a court filing, because the presidential proclamation would immediately kick in to prevent those outcomes.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIn any event, the public\u2019s interest in a trial of these defendants has already fully vested,\u201d Massucco-LaTaif wrote. \u201cThis Court presided over two public trials of the charges in this indictment. \u2026 Dismissal of these cases with prejudice will not erase this public record.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The president and top officials in his administration have moved aggressively to recast and minimize the threat posed by the mob of Trump supporters on Jan. 6.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier this year, the Justice Department acknowledged that it had deleted reams of news releases it had posted online, which detailed the prosecutions of those charged in the riot.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Post identified several webpages that led to error messages, including news releases about the <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260403110113\/https:\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/leader-proud-boys-indicted-federal-court-conspiracy-and-other-offenses-related-us-capitol\" rel=\"\">arrest<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20260403043943\/https:\/www.justice.gov\/usao-dc\/pr\/jury-convicts-four-leaders-proud-boys-seditious-conspiracy-related-us-capitol-breach\" rel=\"\">conviction<\/a> of Tarrio and other rioters whose convictions were undone by Pirro. The Justice Department said in a social media post that it was erasing what it considered \u201cpartisan propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe are proud to reverse the DOJ\u2019s weaponization under the Biden administration,\u201d the department posted on its <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/dojrr47\/status\/2057989742344454164?s=46\" rel=\"\">rapid-response account<\/a> on X. \u201cWe will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ\u2019s website of partisan propaganda.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Copies of hundreds of those news releases, which had been hosted on the website of the U.S. attorney\u2019s office for D.C., have been archived by an independent website, the Internet Archive\u2019s Wayback Machine.<\/p>\n<p>A spokesperson for Pirro did not say who ordered the deletions or how many releases were affected, referring questions to Justice Department headquarters. A searchable database of all charges and convictions stemming from the Jan. 6 investigation was taken offline by the Justice Department last year.<\/p>\n<p>Pirro has denounced political violence in other cases, such as the incident this year in which a lone gunman allegedly tried to assassinate Trump during the White House correspondents\u2019 dinner, but routinely declines to take questions about the Jan. 6 riot at her public appearances.<\/p>\n<p>She has also pursued Trump\u2019s perceived political foes with shaky allegations of misconduct, including then-Federal Reserve Chair Jerome H. Powell as well as six Democratic lawmakers who angered the president by posting a video on social media reminding U.S. service members that they could refuse illegal military commands. A grand jury refused to indict the six Democrats, and Pirro closed the investigation into Powell after failing to find evidence of a crime.<\/p>\n<p>In addition to the pardons, commutations and court filings seeking to dismiss cases, Trump appointees have fired many of the FBI officials and prosecutors who investigated the attack.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department has also taken steps to vacate the conviction of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/02\/09\/steve-bannon-justice-conviction-january-6\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/02\/09\/steve-bannon-justice-conviction-january-6\/\">Stephen K. Bannon<\/a>, a former Trump adviser who was convicted of contempt of Congress for defying a subpoena related to Jan. 6. And the department has stopped defending a similar conviction for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/09\/08\/navarro-contempt-conviction-appeal-doj\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/dc-md-va\/2025\/09\/08\/navarro-contempt-conviction-appeal-doj\/\">Peter Navarro<\/a>, a top trade adviser to the president who is appealing his case.<\/p>\n<p>The Trump administration had announced plans for a $1.776 billion fund to provide payments to people who claim they were unfairly targeted by law enforcement, and dozens of Jan. 6 rioters said they intended to apply for a cut of the money. The payments would have been <a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/05\/25\/where-trumps-18b-anti-weaponization-fund-gets-its-money-how-it-could-work\/\" rel=\"\" title=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/05\/25\/where-trumps-18b-anti-weaponization-fund-gets-its-money-how-it-could-work\/\">funded by taxpayers<\/a>, raising bipartisan concerns in Congress. A federal judge issued an injunction blocking the \u201cAnti-Weaponization Fund\u201d from being established, and Trump administration officials have said that effort is dead.<\/p>\n<p>In dismissing the Proud Boys\u2019 seditious conspiracy charges, Kelly invoked remarks from President Ronald Reagan\u2019s first inaugural address in 1981 describing the peaceful transfer of power as a miracle of self-governance.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPresident Trump\u2019s views about the prosecution of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6 \u2014 whether those views are based on fact or fiction \u2014 are well known, as is his intention to extend clemency to them through the Executive Order,\u201d Kelly wrote in the opinion.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMoving forward, if this Nation\u2019s experiment in self-government is to last another 250 years, the American people \u2014 no matter their partisan preferences \u2014 will have to act together to preserve, protect and defend that miracle through our constitutional framework,\u201d he wrote.<\/p><p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/movinginsiderusa.com\/?p=7026\">Brewers place pitcher Kyle Harrison on injured list with forearm tightness and call up Robert Gasser<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In his ruling, Judge Timothy Kelly called the Capitol riot a \u201cperilous event\u201d and \u201can attack on the Constitution\u2019s mechanism to facilitate the peaceful transfer of power.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":7031,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7033","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-interesting"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.6 - 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In this Jan. 6, 2021, file photo, violent protesters, loyal to then-President Donald Trump, storm the Capitol, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2021, in Washington. Two Seattle police officers who were in Washington, D.C., during the January 6 insurrection were illegally trespassing on Capitol grounds while rioters stormed the building, but lied about their actions, a police watchdog said in a report released Thursday, July 8, 2021. 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