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Vance defends Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons, including those who attacked police

Brad Schimel, a Republican-backed candidate, expressed support for President Donald Trump's pardons for about 1,500 rioters from the January 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol during a news conference.
Schimel stated, "I don’t object to them utilizing that power," in response to questions about the pardons issued by Trump.
Critics, including former U.S. Capitol Police officer Pam Hemphill, condemned the pardons, calling them a "slap in the face to law-abiding American citizens."
The Wisconsin Supreme Court race has gained national attention, with endorsements from prominent figures like Elon Musk and U.S. Senator Ron Johnson.

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Straight Arrow News

Weingarten: Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons aim to restore liberty, justice

President Trump has defended his decision to issue pardons and halt prosecutions for the more than 1,500 individuals charged in connection with the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol attack. The pardons included violent extremists who had been convicted of assaulting law enforcement officers and of plotting sedition against the United States. Some Republicans — and even some of those who received the pardons themselves — disagreed sharply with the president’s…

26 days ago

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WBUR

Do Trump's Jan. 6 pardons undermine rule of law in America?

President Trump mass pardoned January 6th rioters, many who violently attacked police officers. The rioters were convicted in U.S. courts with due process. But the pardons undermine those court rulings, and possibly the concept of rule of law in America.

26 days ago·Boston, United States

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Hartford Courant

Readers speak: Disgusted by those pardoned for assaulting police officers

Isn’t it wonderful that the “law and order” president has pardoned his J-6 “peaceful patriots” who were so unjustly convicted of assaulting police officers and vandalizing our nation’s Capital? Spit on a cop, get a MAGA cap; kick, punch or beat an officer, earn a T-shirt and collector’s card; and for seditious conspiracy, it’s a specialty…Bible. Will others convicted of attacking police be receiving the same treatment? I guess that’s why all th…

26 days ago·Hartford, United States

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Ohio Capital Journal

Bernie Moreno and JD Vance shame Ohio by defending pardons for violent criminals who beat police

Donald Trump supporters clash with police and security forces as they storm the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 in Washington, D.C. (Photo by Brent Stirton/Getty Images)“Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter.” The quote is attributable to a 1965 sermon Martin Luther King Jr. gave the day after “Bloody Sunday,” when civil rights protestors were attacked and beaten by police on the Edmund Pettus Bridge. In a perio…

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Las Vegas Review-Journal

LETTER: Trump’s Jan. 6 pardons

I watched the invasion of our Capitol and was sickened — but not nearly as sickened as I was seeing these people pardoned and their sentences commuted.

26 days ago·Las Vegas, United States

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The Epoch Times

Jan. 6 Capitol Breach Defendant in Canadian Custody Seeks Return to US After Trump Pardon

The lawyer for a Jan. 6 Capitol breach defendant arrested in British Columbia earlier this month is seeking his client’s release and return to the United States after President Donald Trump’s pardons of Jan. 6 defendants. Antony Vo, 32, has been in custody since the Canada Border Services Agency (CBSA) detained him at a ski resort in Whistler, B.C., on Jan. 6. Vo, from Indiana, had been sentenced to nine months in prison for entering the U.S. Ca…

26 days ago·New York, United States

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