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The Outsiders
Another transition occurred January 20, 2025: disbelief of January 6, 2021.
The innocent were pardoned in the morning; the guilty were pardoned in the afternoon. — Jamie Raskin, currently pardoned former member of the January 6 Committee and ranking member of the House Oversight Committee
We need to ask ourselves, what does (executive) pardoning do to our system of justice? — Amy Klobuchar, co-chair of the 2025 Presidential Inauguration Committee, Tuesday, January 21, 2025
Donald Trump and his loyalists not only celebrate the deadly mob that killed my brother — they are determined to pardon those responsible. It is a betrayal to not only the families and loved ones of those who were injured and killed but to all Americans. — Craig Sicknick, the brother of the late Officer Brian Sicknick
The legal path for accountability in the insurrection that America witnessed January 6 when a mob descended on the nation’s capital to disrupt the peaceful transfer of power abruptly ended Monday in a joint pardoning exercise bracketing the inauguration of the 47th President.
Some were pardoned for completing their investigation of the January 6 violence; some were pardoned for conspiring in the violence of January 6. As multiple juries confirmed, one didn’t need to carry a 2 by 4 or bear spray to be found guilty of multiple crimes.
