Judges in Washington, D.C., who have spent the last four years wading through hundreds of criminal cases surrounding January 6 are now being asked by Donald Trump’s Department of Justice to dismiss hundreds of open cases in front of them.
In court filings responding to requests to toss charges for the remaining defendants, judges are barely hiding their contempt for Trump’s sweeping pardons for virtually every member of the mob — and warning against attempts to rewrite the history of the Capitol attack and downplay the staggering display of violence.
