Wednesday, April 30, 2025
George Santos begs for a pardon, because of course he would
Shane Jason Woods convicted of Reckless Homicide in Car Accident after leaving Traffic Stop
In trouble for assaulting police officers on Jan 6th, lives on to kill another human being after evading the police for a traffic stop. Apparently this was a failed suicide attempt. Former Jan. 6 defendant found guilty of reckless homicide – not first-degree murder – over fatal 2022 crash - Chicago Sun-Times
Sunday, April 27, 2025
You have to what? Ryan Nichols drops campaign for Office
I remember Trumps expression after he met with Obama, and Obama explained all the people he had to nominate and explained the inner workings of the presidency. I think Ryan had the same realization and bailed: Pardoned Jan. 6 protester Ryan Nichols vacates run for U.S. Congress
After effects of J6 Pardons The Hill article -- Do you even J6, Bro?
Charges outside of J6 investigation dropped, fines reduced or returned, celebrity, complaints about Admin not doing enough: Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons spark several surprises
Jake Lang and Derrick Evans decide no reality TV: straight to Politics
Capitalizing on there J6er fame, why not flesh out a campaign and policies that somehow include storming the Capitol when you aren't happy with election results?
Great Article on the revolving door from jail to pardon to jail
Steve Braun, my favorite pinch hitter, checks his family tree: Jonathan Braun is a real winner in the non-J6er pardon bag. I think I wrote about him before, but this chronicles his piece of shittery pretty well: The Pardon-to-Prison Pipeline. The article covers some of the folks already covered in this blog as well:
"But the group of people convicted in connection with January 6 has been particularly likely to have found more trouble. Former Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio, who was sentenced to 22 years for seditious conspiracy and other crimes, was arrested for assault just a month after being pardoned—at the Capitol, no less. (D.C. prosecutors declined to pursue charges.) He also tried unsuccessfully to stir up conflict at a conference of Trump critics in February. Matthew Huttle, an Indiana man who received a pardon for entering the Capitol on January 6, was fatally shot by a deputy on January 27 after reaching for a gun. Emily Hernandez, a Missouri woman, was convicted for causing a fatal drunk-driving crash in 2022; the sentencing came days after her pardon for January 6 offenses. Andrew Taake of Texas was pardoned in January, then arrested in February on an outstanding charge for allegedly sending explicit messages to an undercover cop he believed was an underage girl.
It’s not just that clemency recipients have been accused of crimes since their pardons; they’ve also tried to use the pardons to get off for other offenses. Edward Kelley argued that his pardon from Trump for January 6 also covered his plot to kill the FBI agents who investigated him; a judge disagreed. Daniel Ball said that charges of illegally possessing a gun should be thrown out because the weapon was discovered in a search related to now-pardoned January 6 charges, and the acting U.S. attorney agreed, but Dan Wilson, a pardoned Capitol rioter who made a similar argument, had less luck with a federal appeals court. (Other defendants have made similar claims, with varying results.) David Daniel, who was charged with producing and possessing child pornography, also argued that a search that turned up the material was invalid because of his January 6 pardon, but the U.S. attorney in the case disagreed. (Daniel has pleaded not guilty to the charges.)"