Samar Faisal stood among a crowd in the crisp winter air, shivering as much from her excitement as the cold. She was in disbelief, she said, that this day had come. Her brother, after spending more than 20 years in an Israeli prison, was being released. “I’m anxious and praying for the moment I finally … Read more
Senator Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a key Trump ally, spoke out Sunday against President Trump’s pardoning of violent rioters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, several of whom were convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers. “I’ve always said that when you pardon people who attack police officers, you’re sending the wrong signal … Read more
On Monday, the Washington police union was decrying President Trump’s use of pardons when he let off rioters who attacked more than 150 officers on Jan. 6, 2021. By Wednesday, the same union was praising Mr. Trump after he pardoned two of their own who had been convicted in connection with the death of a … Read more
Who are the hostages being released? When the cease-fire deal was reached this month after more than a year of negotiations, about 100 hostages, some dead, were thought to be held captive in Gaza. Three hostages — Romi Gonen, Emily Damari and Doron Steinbrecher — were released on the first day of the cease-fire on … Read more
A little over two years ago, prosecutors in the U.S. attorney’s office in Washington obtained a landmark conviction against Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, on charges of seditious conspiracy for the role he played in the attack on the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. On Friday, the same office — now … Read more
President Trump signed orders on Thursday granting pardons to anti-abortion activists a day before the annual March for Life rally in Washington. An aide who handed the orders to Mr. Trump to sign described them as relief for some 23 “peaceful pro-life protesters.” “They should not have been prosecuted,” Mr. Trump said in the Oval … Read more
No one knows more about the hundreds of criminal cases filed against rioters who took part in the Jan. 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol than the federal judges in Washington who oversaw their trials and guilty pleas, watched thousands of hours of surveillance videos and heard hundreds of witnesses deliver firsthand accounts of the … Read more
Fresh from being freed by President Trump’s sweeping grants of clemency, two of the nation’s most notorious far-right leaders — Enrique Tarrio of the Proud Boys and Stewart Rhodes of the Oath Keepers militia — spoke out this week. While the men avoided any declarations about the future of their battered organizations, they asserted unrepentantly … Read more
His vice president, JD Vance, said he “obviously” wouldn’t do it. His nominee for attorney general, Pam Bondi, agreed there was no way: “The president does not like people that abuse police officers,” she told senators last week. The Republican speaker of the House, Mike Johnson, gave similar assurances that President Trump would not pardon … Read more
When inmates are released from federal prison, the Justice Department places a call to their victims, notifying them that the defendant who attacked them is now free. On Tuesday, the phones of U.S. Capitol Police and D.C. police officers were buzzing nonstop. For Aquilino A. Gonell, a former Capitol Police sergeant, the automated calls began … Read more