Volusia County Proud Boys leader Joe Biggs was sentenced to 17 years in prison in August 2023. President Donald J. Trump commuted his sentence.
Trump's blanket order came the same day that Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue pre-emptive pardons for his brothers and sister, as well as members of the US House of Representatives committee whose investigation into the Capitol riot concluded Trump was to blame.
Former Proud Boys extremist group leader Enrique Tarrio and Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy convictions in the Jan.
Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years in May 2023 after a jury found him guilty of conspiring to stop the transfer of power and other charges. In September 2023, Tarrio, who asked Trump for a full pardon on the fourth anniversary of the insurrection, was sentenced to 22 years.
US President Donald Trump has granted pardons to 1,500 individuals convicted or charged in connection with the January 6, 2021 attack on the US Capitol, where thousands of his supporters stormed the building in a failed bid to prevent the certification of his 2020 election defeat to Joe Biden.
A former member of the Proud Boys, Jason Kessler, was the primary organizer of the 2017 white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, which Joe Biden again criticized for its anti-Semitism during ...
Thompson encouraged Americans to pay attention to how Trump is starting his second term after he issued 1,500 pardons to Jan. 6 rioters.
The US Constitution grants presidents with the authority of executive clemency for individuals convicted in federal criminal cases.
The select subcommittee will be chaired by Representative Barry Loudermilk, who also leads the House Administration Subcommittee on Oversight, and last month released a 128-page “interim report” by House Republicans on the January 6 committee.
Dozens of Kentuckians convicted for crimes committed at the Jan. 6 Capitol insurrection received a full pardon from President Donald Trump as one of his first acts in office.
A retired federal judge from Pennsylvania explains presidential pardons and commutations and how they could affect respect for law.