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Partisan Colorado Senate resolution to be introduced Monday condemning Trump, J6 pardons
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Rocky Mountain Voice, State

Partisan Colorado Senate resolution to be introduced Monday condemning Trump, J6 pardons

By BRIAN PORTER | Rocky Mountain Voice A partisan, Democrat-led resolution condemning pardons issued for all involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, protests in Washington, D.C., is expected to be introduced Monday in the Colorado Senate. Senate Joint Resolution 25-006, led by Democrat Sens. Nick Hinrichsen and Matt Ball and prime-sponsored by Democrat Reps. Sean Camacho and Michael Carter, is a measure overtly blaming President Donald J. Trump for the protests. "Following President Trump's speech at The Ellipse, rally attendees marched to the U.S. Capitol and many began rioting, with official FBI estimates concluding that between 2,000 and 2,500 people forcibly and illegally breached the Capitol," the measure reads, noting "many scholars" described the event as an "attempted self-coup" and...
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U.S. District Judge Cobb, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocks release of FBI Jan. 6 agent list
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Courthouse News Service, National

U.S. District Judge Cobb, a Biden appointee, temporarily blocks release of FBI Jan. 6 agent list

By Ryan Knappenberger | Courthouse News A federal judge on Thursday issued a temporary stay to prevent the Justice Department from publicizing or sharing with other government agencies the results of an internal survey listing the FBI employees who worked on the Jan. 6, 2021, and classified documents case. U.S. District Judge Jia Cobb issued the administrative stay until she could hear further arguments at an 11 a.m. Friday hearing and determine whether the Justice Department would agree to a consent order and provide the agents prior notice before taking any steps to share the list outside the department. The Joe Biden appointee scheduled Thursday’s hearing, which required several hourslong breaks for the parties to confer in an effort to hash out a consent order, to determine wh...
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‘J6 Praying Grandma’ attends Trump’s inauguration, pledges to keep fighting
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gazette.com, Local

‘J6 Praying Grandma’ attends Trump’s inauguration, pledges to keep fighting

By Debbie Kelley  | The Gazette After being court-ordered not to return to Washington, D.C., or step foot in the Capitol building as part of her sentencing related to the Jan. 6, 2021, United States Capitol breach, Rebecca Lavrenz of Falcon cried when she got off a bus Monday in that very spot to attend the inauguration of President Donald J. Trump. “I could not hold back the tears,” she said Wednesday. “Four years ago, we were in a battle to have truth and righteousness prevail. I couldn’t believe I was going to be allowed back in that building and watch the inauguration of the president that should have been there four years ago.” READ THE FULL STORY AT THE GAZETTE
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Trump grants sweeping clemency for Jan. 6 political prisoners after Biden pardons family
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National, The Federalist

Trump grants sweeping clemency for Jan. 6 political prisoners after Biden pardons family

By Tristan Justice | The Federalist President Donald Trump pardoned nearly every defendant charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021 after his predecessor issued pre-emptive pardons for the rest of the Biden family moments before leaving office. The freshly inaugurated president delivered the pardons in one of his first acts upon his triumphant return to the Oval Office. The executive order granted “full, complete, and unconditional pardons” to roughly 1,500 people and commuted the sentences of another 14. The total number of defendants charged is 1,583, according to The Hill. “What they’ve done to these people is outrageous,” Trump said at the White House as he signed a pile of orders across the Resolute Desk READ THE FULL STORY AT THE FEDERALIST...
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Davidson: The legacy of Jan. 6 should be massive reform of the FBI and DOJ
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Commentary, National, The Federalist

Davidson: The legacy of Jan. 6 should be massive reform of the FBI and DOJ

By John Daniel Davidson | Commentary, The Federalist Monday marked the four-year anniversary of Jan. 6, 2021, when tens of thousands of peaceful Trump supporters demonstrated outside the U.S. Capitol and a small number of them clashed with police before entering the Capitol itself. For Democrats and the left, Jan. 6 is the events that vindicates their hatred of Donald Trump and his supporters. They would have us believe it was among the darkest days in our nation’s history, when democracy itself hung in the balance and violent insurrectionists nearly prevented the peaceful transfer of power. Many of them actually believe and still repeat, as Sen. Amy Klobuchar did on Monday, that pro-Trump rioters killed police officers on Jan. 6. Above all, they insist that President Trump was...
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DOJ attorney who prosecuted 1,572 J6 cases to step down before Trump takes office
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National, The Daily Caller

DOJ attorney who prosecuted 1,572 J6 cases to step down before Trump takes office

By Katelynn Richardson | Daily Caller The Department of Justice (DOJ) attorney who led prosecutions of over 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants is set to step down before President-elect Donald Trump takes office on Jan. 20, 2025. U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Matthew Graves will resign from his position on Jan. 16, he announced Monday. Under Graves, 1,572 defendants were charged with crimes related to their presence at the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, according to his office. “Serving as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia has been the honor of a lifetime,” Graves said in a Monday statement. “I am deeply thankful to Congresswoman Holmes Norton for recommending me; to President Biden for nominating me; and to Attorney General Garland for placing his tru...
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Officer who killed Ashli Babbitt abandoned U.S. Capitol post for card game, lied about it, source says
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National, tHE bLAZE

Officer who killed Ashli Babbitt abandoned U.S. Capitol post for card game, lied about it, source says

By Steve Baker and Joseph M. Hanneman | The Blaze The U.S. Capitol Police lieutenant who shot and killed Ashli Babbitt at the Capitol on Jan. 6 was recommended for termination in 2001 for abandoning his post in the Speaker’s Office for a card game in a nearby cloakroom, then lying about it to Internal Affairs Division investigators, Blaze News has learned. The 2001 investigation of Michael L. Byrd, 56, was the first known disciplinary case brought against the lieutenant who crept from his blind near the doors to the Speaker’s Lobby on Jan. 6, 2021, and shot Babbitt to death. The 2001 incident is the fourth such disciplinary case disclosed since Nov. 20. A source with detailed knowledge of the Internal Affairs Division case told Blaze News that Byrd was charged with abandoning his ...
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Trump says he’ll act on ‘first day’ on Jan. 6 defendants, but perhaps not by pardon
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CBS Colorado, National

Trump says he’ll act on ‘first day’ on Jan. 6 defendants, but perhaps not by pardon

By Scott MacFarlane | CBS Colorado President-elect Donald Trump plans to act on the "first day" of his presidency on the cases of some Jan. 6 defendants and said he believes the House members on the select Jan. 6 committee who investigated the 2021 Capitol riot, including Democratic Rep. Bennie Thompson and former GOP Rep. Liz Cheney, "should go to jail." In an interview that aired Sunday on NBC News' "Meet the Press," Trump told host Kristen Welker he would not direct the FBI director or attorney general to do so, but said "I think they'll have to look at that." The president-elect was also pressed on whether he would pardon some or all of the Capitol riot defendants. He indicated he would not issue a universal blanket pardon: "We're going to look at independent cases."...
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Special counsel Jack Smith seeks to dismiss Trump’s January 6 case
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National, National Review

Special counsel Jack Smith seeks to dismiss Trump’s January 6 case

By Haley Strack | National Review Biden-Harris Justice Department special counsel Jack Smith filed a motion Monday to dismiss all felony charges against President-elect Donald Trump in relation to the January 6 election-interference case. Trump was accused of interfering in the 2020 election and was indicted in August 2023 on multiple charges, including conspiracy to defraud the U.S., conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding, obstruction of and attempt to obstruct an official proceeding, and conspiracy against rights. On Monday, Smith petitioned U.S. District Judge Tanya S. Chutkan, who is presiding over the case, to dismiss the case  in accordance with the DOJ’s policy to not prosecute sitting presidents. READ THE FULL STORY AT NATIONAL REVIEW
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DOD ‘Intentionally Delayed’ National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6
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National, The Federalist

DOD ‘Intentionally Delayed’ National Guard Deployment To The Capitol On Jan. 6

By Tristan Justice | The Federalist ‘The DoD IG knowingly concealed the extent of the delay in constructing a narrative that is favorable to DoD and Pentagon leadership,’ the letter says. Federal bureaucrats within the Department of Defense (DoD) delayed the deployment of the National Guard on Jan. 6, 2021 and covered it up, according to a House Republican investigation of government conduct related to the Capitol riot. On Thursday, Rep. Barry Loudermilk, R-Ga., who is leading a review of the work completed by the partisan Jan. 6 probe run by then-Rep. Liz Cheney of Wyoming, sent a letter to the inspector general for the Department of Defense demanding a correction to an agency report  published in November 2021. READ THE FULL STORY AT THE FEDERALIST
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