Rep. Jim McGovern condemned Donald Trump's pardons for January 6 rioters, calling them "sick" and "un-American" while accusing the GOP of betraying law and order.
Donald Trump's blanket pardon for Jan. 6 rioters included some of the most violent offenders convicted of crimes related to the attack.
US President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons of Capitol rioters drew starkly contrasting reactions on Tuesday, largely embraced by his Republican supporters and vehemently condemned by Democrats. "And I've been betrayed by those that supported Donald Trump,
President Donald Trump’s indiscriminate release of some 1,600 January 6 insurrection defendants, including those convicted of violent crimes against police, is meeting with mixed reviews from law enforcement,
Trump, hours after being sworn in on Monday, granted the pardons to more than 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol including those convicted of assaulting police officers
Video footage and pictures from the Oval Office show President Donald Trump signing off executive orders with a thick, black Sharpie.
He issued formal pardons to more than 1,550 rioters charged with a wide range of crimes and commuted the sentences of 14 members of far-right groups.
Trump's action paves the way for the release from prison of people found guilty of violent attacks on police, as well as leaders of far-right extremist groups convicted of failed plots to keep the Republican in power after he lost the 2020 election to former president Joe Biden.
Daniel Charles Ball, who prosecutors alleged threw an explosive device at officers in a tunnel at the Capitol, was arrested after receiving his pardon and remained in custody in Washington.
The U.S. Capitol Police on Thursday said a man who passed a security checkpoint with a handgun and toured the chamber was arrested and charged.
On Tuesday night, President Donald Trump issued a pardon to Ross Ulbricht, who ran the dark web marketplace Silk Road under the pseudonym “Dread Pirate Roberts.” Ulbricht has been serving a life sentence without parole since 2015, when he was convicted of multiple charges, including the distribution of narcotics.
Ten Iowans are included in President Trump’s mass clemency for the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol by a mob of his supporters. The attack, which was intended […]