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<ul class="summary-list"><li>Judges are growing increasingly concerned about unvaccinated January 6 defendants coming into court.</li><li>A defense lawyer raised a January 6 defendant's recent vaccination to argue for a lower sentence.</li></ul>As <keyword id="12759994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="robert-scott-palmer" source="Orion">Robert Scott Palmer</keyword> prepared to <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-fire-extinguisher-police-prison-sentence-january-6-2021-12">receive his sentence</a> Friday for hurling a fire extinguisher at police during the January 6 attack on the Capitol, his lawyer turned to a topic of increasing concern for federal judges: vaccination status.Palmer had been suspicious of the vaccine against COVID-19, his lawyer Bjorn Brunvand said, a distrust shared with many in the pro-Trump mob that ransacked the Capitol. "Every … single … one of them," <keyword id="12759995" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="judge-tanya-chutkan" source="Orion">Judge Tanya Chutkan</keyword> said, chiming in before Brunvand could say that Palmer had been convinced to take the vaccine and recently received his first dose.As the first trials and other proceedings approach for January 6 defendants, federal judges have spoken with increasing alarm about accused Capitol rioters who remain unvaccinated and pose a safety risk to the courthouse staff. In the political sphere, Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene, a Georgia Republican known for peddling conspiracy theories, recently said a detained January 6 defendant had received the vaccine to appear in court after being pressured by a federal judge.Most hearings are being held virtually in light of the pandemic. But, with trials and other in-person proceedings set for early 2022, judges are grappling with how to balance the health risks posed by unvaccinated January 6 defendants with their constitutional rights.The federal trial court posted a <a href="https://www.dcd.uscourts.gov/sites/dcd/files/Appendix_8_Updated_20211213.pdf">plan</a> for jury trials that requires participants to wear face masks and asks them to alert staff to any exposures to COVID or symptoms consistent with the coronavirus. There is no requirement for vaccination.But judges, as the masters of their own courtrooms, have crafted individual approaches to handling unvaccinated January 6 defendants, who together are providing a small window into how rabid support of Trump often <a href="https://www.npr.org/2021/12/06/1057344561/anti-vaccine-activists-political-conference-trump-republicans">runs in parallel </a>with reluctance to inoculation. Former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> experienced the political divide over vaccines at a recent public appearance, where he was <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/donald-trump-playing-right-into-their-hands-doubting-vaccines-boosters-2021-12">booed</a> after saying he'd received a booster shot.<div type="image" title="Palmer Robert Scott" height="1004" width="1338" msid="88438644" hostid="261"></div><h2>A tale of two sentencings</h2>On Friday, <keyword id="12793990" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="judge-reggie-walton" source="Orion">Judge Reggie Walton</keyword> said he would have held a virtual sentencing for Anthony Mariotto if he'd known the Florida man had not been vaccinated against COVID-19. The in-person hearing, Walton said, subjected the courthouse to someone who'd chosen not to be vaccinated "despite all the people who are dying."Walton weighed whether he would be putting corrections officers and other inmates at risk if he sentenced Mariotto to prison. The prosecutor, who appeared virtually after an exposure to someone who tested positive for COVID, asked for a four-month prison sentence."The fact of the matter is, Mr. Mariotto has chosen not to vaccinate himself. Every time he's on the street he's exposing other people."Walton sentenced Mariotto to three months of probation.In Palmer's case, his recent vaccination came into play at sentencing.Palmer's lawyer noted the initial dose of the vaccine as he argued for a lesser sentence than the more than five-year prison term recommended by the <keyword id="11897354" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="justice-department" source="Orion">Justice Department</keyword>.The lawyer said he had urged Palmer earlier in the week to get vaccinated and "move on." On the eve of his sentencing, the lawyer said Palmer was late for their meeting at the jail because he was receiving the initial dose."I am so very glad to hear that," Chutkan said. The judge explained that she was not punishing anyone based on their political beliefs or whether they want a vaccination against COVID."But your actions demonstrate to me, in doing that, that you're capable of reflection, of listening, and changing your mind based on information you receive," she added.Still, Chutkan sided with the Justice Department's recommendation and sentenced Palmer to more than five years in federal prison.<div type="image" title="Marjorie Taylor Greene" height="3834" width="5112" msid="88438645" hostid="261"></div><h2>Marjorie Taylor Greene and the political crucible</h2>Outside of court, vaccination status has emerged as a talking point for Republicans who have decried the jail conditions for detained January 6 defendants.Ahead of a Monday court hearing for January 6 defendant Ryan Nichols, Greene <a href="https://twitter.com/mtgreenee/status/1472925660276527107?s=20">tweeted</a> that the Texas man "took the vaccine so he could shown [sic] up in court in person, with his beard gone, and hair cut. (The judge kept asking why are you not vaccinated).""The jail refused to let him cut his hair or beard AND as of yesterday he was not allowed to shower for 3 days," added Greene, who previously <a href="https://www.cnn.com/2021/11/16/politics/marjorie-taylor-greene-vaccination-status/index.html">said</a> she has not received a COVID vaccine. "Today is his trial."Monday's court proceeding was not, in fact, Nichols' trial. Instead it was a hearing on Nichols' request to be released from jail as he awaits trial on charges he wielded a crowbar at the Capitol and used pepper spray during the January 6 attack, which he called "the second revolution."On Monday, Nichols' lawyer Joseph McBride railed against his client's treatment in the District of Columbia's jail, saying his client resembled Tom Hanks' character in the 2001 film "Cast Away" after going months without a haircut or shave."He looks like a homeless person on the streets of New York City, and he's in the care of the United States government. How is this acceptable?" McBride said, adding that Nichols had been vaccinated for the "specific purpose" of being able to appear in court.A prosecutor, Luke Jones, said the jail conditions were connected to Nichols going months without a vaccination."That's just a public health issue," Jones said.After an hours-long hearing, <keyword id="12793989" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="judge-thomas-hogan" source="Orion">Judge Thomas Hogan</keyword> ordered that Nichols remain held at the District of Columbia jail.

Pro-Trump January 6 rioters are facing a big question as they come to court: To get a COVID shot or not?

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A Trump supporter got sentenced to more than 5 years in prison Friday for his role in the January 6 riot.</li><li>Robert Palmer pleaded guilty in October to throwing a fire extinguisher at police guarding the Capitol</li></ul>An avid supporter of former President <keyword id="11914386" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="donald-trump" source="Orion">Donald Trump</keyword> who threw a fire extinguisher at police during the January 6 attack on the Capitol was sentenced Friday to more than 5 years in prison, the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-threw-fire-extinguisher-at-police-5-years-prison-2021-12">longest term</a> ordered to date in a prosecution arising out of the deadly rampage.<keyword id="12759994" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="robert-scott-palmer" source="Orion">Robert Scott Palmer</keyword>, who wore a American flag sweatshirt emblazoned with Trump's name during the Capitol siege, pleaded guilty in October to assaulting police on January 6.He was part of the pro-Trump mob that overwhelmed police protecting the Capitol during the certification of Joe Biden's White House victory and faced federal charges for spraying law enforcement officers with the contents of the fire extinguisher. Once it was empty, he hurled the extinguisher itself at police officers, prosecutors said.US District Court <keyword id="12759995" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="judge-tanya-chutkan" source="Orion">Judge Tanya Chutkan</keyword> delivered Palmer's 63-month sentence, which is exactly what federal prosecutors had recommended for the Florida businessman who said he'd been swept up in the furor of the pro-Trump mob.In a court filing recommending that sentence, prosecutors noted that while some Capitol rioters donned tactical gear and used dangerous weapons during the melee, Palmer was among those who transformed ordinary objects — such as flag poles, sticks, and barricades — into dangerous weapons.On Friday, Chutkan said many others shared Palmer's objection to the 2020 election results and "perhaps thought the election was stolen in some way."But, she added, "they stayed home. You decided on your own free will to leave Florida and come to Washington and go to the rally. That's your right. You're not being sentenced for your political views. When you left that rally and went to the Capitol and saw what was going on and engaged in combat with a law enforcement officer — that's what you're being punished for."The Capitol attack was not a protest but rather "a violent attempt to stop the peaceful transfer of power," said Chutkan, an appointee of President Barack Obama, noting the rioters caused destruction, death and injuries both seen an unseen."Many of the people who were inside the Capitol will <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/january-6-capitol-attack-insurrectionists-return-to-congress-as-tourists-2021-10">carry that</a> for a long time," Chutkan said.Palmer has been in custody since his October guilty plea. In brief remarks to Chutkan, Palmer appeared to grow emotional as he recounted watching an MSNBC segment on his case while in jail and being struck by the violence of January 6. He described law enforcement as "so brave" and said he was "so ashamed I was a part of that — very, very ashamed."Ahead of Palmer's sentencing, his defense lawyer argued that a sentence of between 18 months and two years would be "sufficient, but not greater than necessary," and that he recognized his actions on January 6 were "inexcusable."Prosecutors cast doubt on Palmer's level of remorse. After admitting guilt, they said, Palmer posted online that his actions were purely defensive and that he had been reacting to being tear-gassed. Still, prosecutors said Palmer had pleaded guilty relatively early.Chutkan on Friday said the post showed that Palmer "still denied culpability" after pleading guilty. Palmer's sentence stands out as longest among Capitol rioters, with some of the other more prominent ones receiving prison sentences of more than three years.Jacob Chansley, a Capitol rioter known as the <keyword id="12012698" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="qanon-shaman" source="Orion">QAnon Shaman</keyword>, got <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/jacob-chansley-qanon-shaman-sentence-capitol-riot-esus-mlk-gandhi-2021-11?utm_medium=referral&amp;utm_source=yahoo.com">sentenced to 41 months</a> in prison after pleading guilty to storming the Capitol. Chansley has appealed his sentence to the US Court of Appeals for the DC Circuit.Another rioter, Scott Fairlamb, received the same sentence after pleading guilty to assaulting police on January 6.After participating in the Capitol riot, Palmer told HuffPost that the Biden administration was seeking to "villify the patriots" who joined in the January 6 violence. Chutkan on Friday noted the work of outnumbered police officers that day and urged Palmer to look behind him in the courtroom to marshals who ran over to the Capitol to help on January 6."They were the patriots that day, Mr. Palmer," Chutkan said.

A Capitol rioter who threw a fire extinguisher at police just got the longest prison sentence yet in a January 6 case

<ul class="summary-list"><li>Robert Scott Palmer took a plea deal on Monday for his actions during the <keyword id="11907536" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="capitol-riot" source="Orion">Capitol riot</keyword>. </li><li>Palmer was caught on camera throwing a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at officers. </li><li>In exchange for pleading guilty to one of the charges against him, seven others were dropped. </li></ul>A 54-year-old <keyword id="11910362" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="florida" source="Orion">Florida</keyword> man pleaded guilty to throwing a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police officers during the <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-riot-most-detailed-account-yet-2021-7">Capitol riot</a>, court records filed on Monday show. Robert Scott Palmer of Largo agreed to plead guilty to assaulting, resisting, or impeding officers with a dangerous weapon in exchange for seven other charges against him being dropped, according to the terms of the plea agreement, which was viewed by Insider. Palmer threw a plank at officers with the US Capitol Police and Washington, DC, Metropolitan Police Department while standing near an entrance to the Capitol building on January 6, according to a Justice Department <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/florida-man-pleads-guilty-assault-law-enforcement-during-jan-6-capitol-breach" target="_blank" rel="noopener">press release</a> about the guilty plea. About two minutes later, Palmer "sprayed the contents of a fire extinguisher at the officers until it was empty" and then "threw the fire extinguisher at the officers," the release from the US Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia stated. <div type="image" title="Robert Scott Palmer" height="1000" width="2000" msid="86763198" hostid="261"></div>Though no one was injured, it was determined that Palmer was "capable of inflicting serious bodily injury" due to "the size and weight of the plank and fire extinguisher, and the speed and force with which Palmer threw them."Palmer is set to be sentenced on December 17. He faces a maximum penalty of up to 20 years in prison and a $250,000 fine. Another term of Palmer's plea agreement is that he be interviewed by investigators before his sentencing, and allow them to search his social media accounts. More than 600 people have been charged in connection to the Capitol riot, but <a href="https://www.insider.com/capitol-rioters-who-pleaded-guilty-updated-list-2021-5" target="_blank" rel="noopener">less than 80</a> had pleaded guilty as of Monday.

Florida man pleads guilty to throwing a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police officers during the Capitol riot

<ul class="summary-list"><li>A jury found <keyword id="13268927" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="guy-reffitt" source="Orion">Guy Reffitt</keyword> guilty on all five charges he faced from the <keyword id="10554785" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="capitol-siege" source="Orion">Capitol siege</keyword> on January 6.</li><li>Reffitt's teenage son recounted at trial how his father bragged about his role in the attack.</li></ul>Guy Reffitt, the first Capitol rioter <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-attack-riot-guy-reffitt-january-6-trial-2022-3">convicted</a> at trial on charges stemming from the January 6, 2021 insurrection, should receive a 15-year prison sentence for his "central role" in leading a pro-Trump mob that clashed with police protecting Congress, federal prosecutors said in a court <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.226696/gov.uscourts.dcd.226696.158.0_1.pdf" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">filing</a> Friday.A jury in Washington, DC, needed <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-attack-riot-guy-reffitt-january-6-trial-2022-3">just hours in early March to find Reffitt guilty</a> on all five charges he faced in connection with the Capitol attack, including obstruction of an official proceeding. Reffitt, of Texas, was also found guilty of entering restricted Capitol grounds with a handgun and with later threatening his children to keep them from reporting him to law enforcement.In a 58-page court filing, federal prosecutors argued that Reffitt played a pivotal role in "overwhelming officers and showing the mob the way forward at the outset of the riot." The language echoed their description of Reffitt at his weeklong trial, where prosecutors called Reffitt the "tip of this mob's spear" and played video footage of him ascending stairs up to the Capitol in tactical gear, with fellow members of the pro-Trump mob following him.If ordered, the 15-year sentence would go down as the longest prison term given to a Capitol rioter to date, nearly tripling the more than 5-year <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-fire-extinguisher-police-prison-sentence-january-6-2021-12">sentence</a> Robert Scott Palmer received after throwing a fire extinguisher at police during the January 6 attack. Judge Dabney Friedrich, a Trump appointee confirmed in 2017, is set to sentence Reffitt on August 1.Reffitt's conviction represented a decisive victory for federal prosecutors, in a first test of the <keyword id="11897354" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="justice-department" source="Orion">Justice Department</keyword>'s ability to win guilty verdicts at trial against accused Capitol rioters. In the months since the verdict, the Justice Department has won convictions at several other trials, with juries often returning guilty verdicts after only hours of deliberations.In their sentencing recommendation Friday, prosecutors said Reffitt came to Washington, DC, with the intention of using his gun and police-style flexicuffs to "forcibly drag legislators out of the building and take over Congress." At his trial, police officers recounted their desperate attempts to repel rioters as they converged on the Capitol.The trial also featured dramatic testimony from Reffitt's teenage son, Jackson Reffitt, who recalled from the witness stand how he secretly recorded his father after he returned to Texas and exuberantly recounted his climb up the steps outside the Capitol. Jackson Reffitt testified that his father grew distressed as law enforcement tracked down and arrested suspected Capitol rioters in the weeks after the January 6 attack. He described a conversation in which Guy Reffitt told him and his younger sister that they would be traitors if they turned him into law enforcement — and that "traitors get shot."At the sight of his son taking the stand, Reffitt wept inside the courtroom.In a separate court <a href="https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.dcd.226696/gov.uscourts.dcd.226696.157.0.pdf">filing</a> Friday, Reffitt's defense lawyer argued that he should receive a sentence of no longer than 2 years in prison. His lawyer, F. Clinton Broden, noted that Reffitt never entered the Capitol.

Federal prosecutors argue that Guy Reffitt, the first Capitol rioter convicted at trial, should get 15 years behind bars

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In a year-end update, the <keyword id="12098051" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="doj" source="Orion">DOJ</keyword> broke down the arrests and convictions from the <keyword id="11907536" type="UNKNOWN" weightage="60" keywordseo="capitol-riot" source="Orion">Capitol riot</keyword>.</li><li>There had been 725 arrests and 165 guilty please, with several heavy prison terms.</li></ul>Seven hundred and twenty five people have been arrested in connection with the riot at the US Capitol, the Department of Justice said in a <a href="https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/one-year-jan-6-attack-capitol">year-end update</a> on its investigation.DOJ officials broke down the arrests, convictions, and sentences of those accused of involvement in the January 6, 2021, storming of the Capitol.The department said 165 of the 725 arrested — around 22% — had pleaded guilty, mostly to misdemeanor charges.<div type="image" title="Palmer Robert Scott" height="1004" width="1512" msid="88633804" hostid="261"></div>Twenty of the guilty pleas were for felony charges, and four of them — all cases of people attacking police officers — come with minimum prison terms of at least 20 years, the department said.There are many more people at the riot whom the FBI has yet to identify. The DOJ release said that agents are seeking at least 350 more people they suspect of violent acts, including 250 they say assaulted police officers.Here are some of the most notable convictions:<ul><li>Robert Scott Palmer, a rioter who threw a fire extinguisher at police, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-rioter-fire-extinguisher-police-prison-sentence-january-6-2021-12">was sentenced to five years and three months in prison</a> — the longest sentence for a rioter so far.</li><li>Jacob Chansley, known as the QAnon Shaman, was handed <a href="https://www.insider.com/qanon-shaman-jacob-chansley-sentenced-capitol-riot-2021-11">a sentence of three years and seven months</a> for obstructing proceedings in Congress. His outlandish costume on January 6 made him one of the most recognizable defendants.</li></ul><div type="image" title="qanon shaman jacob chansley jake angeli capitol riot" height="1249" width="2500" msid="88633805" hostid="261"></div><ul><li>Jenna Ryan, a Texas realtor, was given a 60-day sentence after admitting a misdemeanor charge. She attracted attention for having flown to DC ahead of the riot by private jet, and for <a href="https://www.dallasobserver.com/news/jenna-ryan-convinced-she-wont-go-to-jail-apologizes-for-having-white-skin-blond-hair-12000445">claiming she would definitely not be sent to prison</a> because she is white and blond. She said after her sentencing that <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/capitol-riot-jenna-ryan-plans-alcohol-detox-yoga-in-jail-2021-12">she hoped to use her time in prison to detox and do yoga</a>.</li><li>Gary Wickersham, an 81-year-old US Army veteran, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/81-year-old-capitol-riot-defendant-sentenced-to-probation-2021-12">was fined $2,500 and given three years of probation</a>. He is notable as one of the oldest defendants.</li></ul>Insider has published interactive databases of <a href="https://www.insider.com/capitol-rioters-who-pleaded-guilty-updated-list-2021-5">those charged over the riot</a>, and <a href="https://www.insider.com/capitol-rioters-who-pleaded-guilty-updated-list-2021-5">those who pleaded guilty</a>.

725 suspects were arrested in the year since the Capitol riot, DOJ announces. The FBI is looking for 350 more.

<ul class="summary-list"><li>In his last hours in office, President <keyword id="6354484" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="Donald-Trump">Donald Trump</keyword> issued more than 140 <keyword id="90070" type="PERSON" weightage="60" keywordseo="pardons">pardons</keyword> and commutations.</li><li>Many went to nonviolent drug offenders, but Trump also gave clemency to some surprising figures.</li><li>The list included a friend of Jared Kushner, a snake smuggler, and a former Google executive.</li></ul>President Donald Trump issued 143 pardons and commutations in his final hours in office, none of which went to Joe Exotic.Exotic and his lawyer Eric Love were hoping for a pardon - <a href="https://www.insider.com/joe-exotic-has-limo-waiting-near-prison-pardon-trump-2021-1">Love was said to be waiting outside the prison holding the "Tiger King" star with a limo</a> on standby (after several hours, he drove away). Exotic is serving a 22-year sentence on more than a dozen charges of animal abuse and two counts of attempted murder.But, surprisingly, the exotic-animal world was still represented on the president's list. Robert Bowker pleaded guilty to trafficking in wildlife 30 years ago, after he was caught transporting 22 snakes to the Miami Serpentarium, an act for which he was offered 22 American alligators. Bowker was sentenced to probation and has spent much of the past few decades working in conservation. Trump granted him a full pardon.Trump also looked to pardon fellow politicians, including former Rep. Rick Renzi of Arizona, who was <a href="https://www.azcentral.com/story/news/politics/arizona/2021/01/19/former-arizona-rep-rick-renzi-pardoned-trump-land-swap-case/4184460001/">convicted in 2013</a> of extortion, bribery, insurance fraud, money laundering, and racketeering in connection with the development of a mine outside Phoenix.Renzi was released from prison in 2017. In a statement Wednesday, he said: "After almost 14 years of fighting for my innocence, it took a real man of action and courage in President Trump to finally relieve me of the horrific deceit of being wrongly convicted by a Department of Justice that engaged in witness tampering, illegal wiretapping, and gross prosecutorial misconduct."<a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/us-charges-ex-editor-of-kushner-owned-newspaper-with-cyberstalking-2020-10">Ken Kurson</a>, who in 2018 was nominated to be on the board of the National Endowment for the Humanities, was also granted a pardon in an ongoing cyberstalking case.As the FBI began vetting the former New York Observer editor for the NEH role, it was revealed that he'd been accused of harassing and stalking two doctors at Mount Sinai Hospital, one of whom he was said to have blamed for the dissolution of his marriage in 2015.A criminal complaint was filed that alleged Kurson had created false online personas to harass the women and that he had at one time contacted the women's employer to falsely accuse them of "improper contact with a minor," <a href="https://www.cnbc.com/2020/11/20/jared-kushner-friend-ken-kurson-in-plea-negotiations-for-stalking-case.html">according to CNBC</a>.Kurson is known to be a close friend of Jared Kushner and is connected to him through his work at the Observer, the newspaper Kushner once owned.According to The New York Times, Kurson also <a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/11/business/media/ken-kurson-trump-administration.html">helped write a campaign speech for Trump in 2016</a> and in <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Leadership-Rudolph-W-Giuliani/dp/0786868414">was a coauthor on Rudy Giuliani's 2002 book, "Leadership."</a>Also pardoned in the latest round was a former Google executive, <a href="https://www.businessinsider.com/anthony-levandowski-waymo-uber-sentencing-2020-8">Anthony Levandowski</a>, whose clemency was supported by several entrepreneurial heavyweights, including the venture capitalist Peter Thiel, the Creative Artists Agency cofounder Michael Ovitz, and the Oculus cofounder Palmer Luckey.Levandowski, who founded Google's self-driving-car initiative, became embroiled in a civil lawsuit after he was accused of sharing trade secrets with Uber. In March he pleaded guilty to one charge of secret theft and was sentenced to 18 months in prison.More than a dozen of the pardons went to people who had been convicted of nonviolent drug offenses. In some cases, those convictions go back to the late 1980s and early 1990s. Many of the names given to Trump were vetted by Cut50, a bipartisan criminal-justice-reform group.Alice Johnson, who was granted clemency by Trump in 2018 after being convicted of drug trafficking in 1996, was part of Cut50's efforts. (<a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2020/08/28/us/politics/trump-alice-johnson-pardon.html">Trump granted Johnson a full pardon</a> in 2020 after she spoke at the Republican National Convention on his behalf.)One particularly striking commutation that Johnson fought for was that of Ferrell Damon Scott, who was convicted of possession with intent to distribute marijuana in 2007 and, under the <a href="https://law.stanford.edu/stanford-justice-advocacy-project/three-strikes-basics/">Three Strikes Law</a> policy, was given a life sentence. The commutation was supported by the acting US Attorney Sam Sheldon, who said he "strongly does not believe" that Scott deserved a life sentence.

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Pro-Trump January 6 rioters are facing a big question as they come to court: To get a COVID shot or not?

C. Ryan Barber

A Capitol rioter who threw a fire extinguisher at police just got the longest prison sentence yet in a January 6 case

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Florida man pleads guilty to throwing a wooden plank and a fire extinguisher at police officers during the Capitol riot

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Federal prosecutors argue that Guy Reffitt, the first Capitol rioter convicted at trial, should get 15 years behind bars

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725 suspects were arrested in the year since the Capitol riot, DOJ announces. The FBI is looking for 350 more.

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Trump's last-minute pardons include a guy who shared Google's trade secrets with Uber, a snake smuggler, and a man charged with cyberstalking a doctor

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Here are all of the Republican elected officials backing Trump's 2024 campaign

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