1 week Ago By Austin Alonzo
John Pierce, a lawyer who has represented more than 50 clients who were charged in relation to the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan.
6, 2021, says he thinks a “blanket pardon” is coming. On Nov. 5, American voters elected former President Donald Trump to a second, nonconsecutive term in the Oval Office.
In a statement issued to The Epoch Times on Nov. 11, Trump–Vance transition spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt said the president-elect “will make pardon decisions on a case-by-case basis.” He also said during his campaign that he would take action on the Jan.
6 cases as soon as his first day in office. Trump is set to return to the White House on Jan. 20, 2025.
“These prosecutions are largely, if not entirely, political,” said Pierce, who’s the chairman of the National Constitutional Law Union, a nonprofit legal advocacy organization, and has also worked on behalf of former Trump White House advisers George Papadopoulos and Carter Page. “The American people have spoken very decisively, from a political standpoint, for a candidate that ran explicitly on the idea of pardoning the defendants.” In September 2023, Tarrio, a former national chairman of the Proud Boys, was sentenced by U.
S. District Judge Timothy Kelly of the U.S.
District Court for the District of Columbia to 22 years in prison and 36 months of supervised release for seditious conspiracy and other charges related to the Capitol breach. At the time, the Department of Justice said it was the longest sentence yet handed down in connection to the Capitol breach. Despite Trump’s victory, the DOJ and the U.
S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia are continuing with their prosecutions. “The investigation and prosecution of those responsible for the attack moves forward,” a Nov.
6 statement from the DOJ said. “In particular, the department continues to pursue those criminally culpable, especially those who assaulted law enforcement officers and engaged in disruptive or obstructive conduct that interfered with the peaceful transfer of power.” All three are suspected of taking violent action on Jan.
6, 2021..
