Misdemeanor case against Matthew Titus Allen of Castle, Oklahoma, was dismissed Wednesday in federal court in Washington, D.C.
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.
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.
Trump’s election interference judge says his Jan 6 pardons can’t ‘whitewash blood, feces, and terror’ - Judges who presided over riot cases deliver blistering rebukes and warn against Trump’s revision
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,
Federal prosecutors have asked federal judges in Washington to dismiss pending indictments against defendants charged as a result of conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.
Federal judges in the D.C. district court have remained essentially silent while signing off on the hundreds of now-dismissed cases that for years crowded their dockets.
A federal judge who has overseen scores of criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol condemned President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons on Wednesday, saying they reflect a "revisionist myth" about the riot.
Rhodes had been convicted in one of the most serious cases prosecuted by the DOJ stemming from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
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.
Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was also handling Trump’s coup attempt case, said the pardons would not change “the historical record.”
The far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder serving 18 years for the Capitol riot visited Capitol Hill after President Trump freed him.