President-elect has confirmed that many defendants don’t deserve punishment for their protests
By Bob Unruh
Two judges in the Washington, D.C., region are pressing pause on various trials for Jan. 6, 2021, case defendants amid President-elect Donald Trump’s confirmation he’ll consider pardons for them.
Multiple thousands of individuals who were part of a protest against suspicious developments in the 2020 presidential election have been charged and convicted of offenses like trespassing for walking into the Capitol building when authorities said it was “closed.”
They sometimes walked past security guards who were holding the doors open for them, but nonetheless were charged anyway.
About 600 already have been given, and many have served, prison terms.
Many others have remained in jail for years awaiting the resolution of their cases.
Now it is Politico that has reported U.S. District Judges Rudolph Contreras and Carl Nichols have suspended action on those pending cases, to avoid calling in dozens of possible jurors for cases that will end.
The judges have, after multiple requests, agreed that Trump’s coming inauguration could make the proceedings fruitless.
The federal Department of Justice has objected to the moves, insisting on sending as many Trump supporters to jail as possible in what has come to be seen as primary evidence of the weaponization of the Department of Justice by Democrats against Trump and his supporters.