A Tennessee man pardoned by President Donald Trump for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot was sentenced Wednesday to life in prison for plotting to assassinate federal agents and attack an FBI office with explosives.
A former FBI agent who encouraged rioters to kill police officers during the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is now advising a Justice Department task force created by President Trump to pursue his political opponents.
The Trump administration has fired at least three federal prosecutors who worked on criminal cases stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
Ed Martin, the Justice Department’s new pardon attorney, has begun reviewing pardon applications for some of the few remaining Jan. 6 Capitol riot defendants who were not granted full clemency by former President Donald Trump.
A top aide to Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said Wednesday the U.S. intelligence community is investigating whether the FBI was involved in planning the Jan. 6, 2021, assault on the U.S. Capitol.
A federal judge ruled Monday that former President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons for Jan. 6 rioters do not extend to the separate crimes of one participant who plotted to kill law enforcement officers investigating him.
The Department of Justice has widened its interpretation of former President Donald Trump’s pardons for Jan. 6 defendants, now applying clemency to separate but related gun charges stemming from FBI searches.
A high-ranking Justice Department official who once helped lead the investigation into the Jan. 6 Capitol attack is now spearheading an effort to identify and scrutinize the very prosecutors and FBI agents who worked on those cases.
