During his time as interim #USattorney in #DC, #EdMartin in February demoted several prosecutors involved in the #Jan6 cases, including the attorney who served as chief of the Capitol Siege Section. Others demoted include 2 #lawyers who helped secure #SeditiousConspiracy convictions against #OathKeepers founder #StewartRhodes & former #ProudBoys national chairman #EnriqueTarrio.

Trump’s sweeping #pardons of #Jan6 insurgents have led to worries about actions being taken against #attorneys involved in the massive prosecution of the >1,500 #Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol as lawmakers met to certify President Joe #Biden’s election victory. Trump pardoned or commuted the sentences of all of them on his first day back…, releasing from prison people convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy & #violent #assault on police.

The ruling, filed w/the court clerk on Mon, will require Mayes to assemble a grand jury to present the case along with a copy of the #ElectoralCountAct, attys said. The initial presentation of her case took weeks. Mayes plans to appeal to try to get the prosecution back on track.

“We vehemently disagree with the court, & we will file a special action to appeal the ruling,” Mayes spox said.

Among those who were indicted were White House chief of staff #MarkMeadows, attorneys #RudyGiuliani, #JohnEastman & #ChristinaBobb, top campaign adviser #BorisEpshteyn & former campaign aide #MikeRoman. The grand jury accused them of unsuccessfully trying to award the state’s electoral votes to #Trump instead of #Biden even though Biden won the popular vote there.

At $500k a person, the private membership club is slated to open by summer in a sprawling, but defunct, restaurant called Clubhouse. It will feature 2 bars, a lounge, a restaurant & boardroom — re-creating the role previously served by the lobby of the Trump International Hotel in Washington, where donors & acolytes of #Trump gathered [including #Jan6 insurrectionists who were convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy] until the family sold it off after Trump’s 1st term.

#PamBondi supported #Trump’s mass #pardons for thousands of his supporters who violently ransacked the US Capitol, including some who assaulted police officers. The #FBI described those involved in the planning & perpetration of that attack as “domestic violent extremists,” whom they had previously identified in threat assessments.

[hundreds of #Jan6 insurgents were convicted of crimes, the #ProudBoys & #OathKeepers were convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy among other crimes.]

Following the #Jan6 attack, there was a wave of #civil cases & #criminal prosecutions that splintered the [domestic terrorist] orgs & sent many members to prison before sweeping #clemency from #Trump. Among them were group leaders named alongside >30 others in the city’s suit, including #ProudBoys leader Henry “Enrique” Tarrio & #OathKeepers founder Stewart Rhodes, both of whom juries #convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy for their part in trying to block the peaceful transition of power.

The prosecutors were still under probationary status, allowing the firings w/o recourse under #DOJ policy….

Notifications went out Fri to people who served in the office’s now-disbanded Capitol siege prosecution section…. The cuts amount to about 8% of the office’s prosecutors. Combined with a recently announced freeze on hiring & promotions, the openings will have impacts across the office’s #civil, #appellate, #SuperiorCourt & #ViolentCrime divisions…

Re #Trump’s mass #pardons of #Jan6 insurgents, #KashPatel said he does “not agree w/the commutation of any sentence of any individual who committed violence against law enforcement.”

It’s a very lawyerly answer. The 14 people who received sentence #commutations, not pardons, were accused of #SeditiousConspiracy — a crime that requires the defendants used #violent force against the govt. But those who got commutations were not involved in the most violent assaults against on J6.

#EdMartin was a prominent member of the "Stop the Steal" movement. In a speech at the Capitol on Jan 5, 2021, he called on "die-hard true Americans" to work until their "last breath" to "stop the steal."

On #Jan6, Martin tweeted that he was "at the Capitol" & said the crowd was rowdy "but nothing out of hand," & he then tweeted, “Like Mardi Gras in DC today: love, faith and joy.”

A *#conservative* activist who has been on the board of a group supporting #Jan6 defendants has been named interim #USAttorney for Washington, #DC, the position that has overseen the hundreds of cases brought in the Capitol siege investigation.

#EdMartin will be the interim chief, #Trump #DOJ official Chad Gilmartin told NBCNews.

Most of the [#ProudBoys & the #OathKeepers] defendants were convicted on #sedition charges & were serving #prison terms of up to 18 years. Under the #commutations, their sentences will be reduced to time served.

The most prominent defendant convicted of #SeditiousConspiracy charges…was #EnriqueTarrio, the fmr leader of the ProudBoys, …[he received a full pardon, not simply a commutation, from #Trump].

Here is a copy of #Trump’s proclamation granting #pardons & #clemency to #Jan6 #insurgents.

https://static01.nyt.com/newsgraphics/documenttools/03e3cc0f9ad2d5fb/df66b9c8-full.pdf

A representative for #EnriqueTarrio, the pardoned former leader of the #ProudBoys, says he has been RELEASED from a federal prison in Louisiana & is expected to return to Miami, his hometown, on Tuesday afternoon.