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| DOJ's 'excessive' treatment of Jan 6 rioters 'undermined' the prosecutions, Turley says after pardons |
| 2025-01-22 |
| President Trump signed pardons for nearly all Jan 6 defendants after his inauguration Constitutional law attorney and Fox News contributor Jonathan Turley reacted on "America's Newsroom" Tuesday to the pardons given by President Donald Trump to nearly all the Jan. 6 rioters charged with crimes. Turley said the "shock and awe" campaign used by the Biden Justice Department ended up undermining the prosecutions. JONATHAN TURLEY: Well, the Department of Justice really made the case for these pardons, and it was hard to do because most of us supported the people responsible for the riot being held accountable. It was a terrible day. But the Justice Department unleashed what one of its top lawyers called a ‘shock and awe’ campaign, and they just scooped up hundreds of people. They often demanded really excessive sentences, in my view. Most of these people were charged with just trespass or unlawful entry. Most of them were not violent. The government tended to oppose bail, they kept a number of them for a very long time in segregation. In some cases, they demanded limitations on what people could say or read or associate with after they were released. All of this tended to undermine their case. So when the president campaigned on this issue, I think a lot of people wanted to see this chapter closed, and he certainly did that. I mean, this was broader than most people expected or even asked for. |
| Posted by:Skidmark |
| #1 Read an interesting piece; in short whatever one thinks leading up to it, as soon as the J6 Prosecutors received a pardon, everyone down river of the prosecution required a pardon as the due process was tainted. |
| Posted by: swksvolFF 2025-01-22 15:30 |