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Lawyers of the Department of Justice are urging federal judges to reject at least two defendants’ Jan. 6 requests to be allowed to return to the nation’s capital for President-elect Donald Trump’s inauguration.
Cindy Young, convicted of four misdemeanors for her part in the Capitol riots, and Russell Taylor, who pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy, both asked the courts to allow them to return to Washington, DC, despite that the provisions of their sentences required them to stay away.
“Contrary to Young’s self-designation that he ‘poses no threat of danger to the community,’ Young poses a danger to the DC community, including himself law enforcement officers who defended the Capitol on January 6, 2021,” U.S. attorneys said in response to Young’s petition. Federal attorneys cited Young’s calls “for retaliation against those involved in the prosecutions of the 6 of January” and argued that she has not “recognized the gravity of the situation”. her actions.”
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Scene from the riot at the Capitol on January 6, 2021. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
A request by Taylor, who was invited to attend the inauguration by members of Utah’s congressional delegation, is also being challenged by Justice Department lawyers who argue that the seriousness of his crimes should prevent him from “return to the scene of the crime.”
“He asks that the Court bless his desire to return to the scene of the crime, and the Court should look no further than his criminal conduct the last time he was in the Capitol,” the U.S. attorneys wrote in a filing with the US District. Judge Royce Lamberth. The lawyers added in their court filing that while they had granted previous travel requests to other defendants involved in the Capitol siege, those approvals were to support people’s continued employment and requests they did not involve trips to the nation’s capital.
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However, another Jan. 6 defendant, Eric Peterson, who was convicted of a misdemeanor in November for his part in the Capitol riots but has not yet been sentenced, received approval from the judge in U.S. District Tanya Chutkan to travel to the district to swear in Trump. -at the ceremony, according to Peterson’s criminal record. In particular, the dossier did not include any response from the Department of Justice urging Chutkan to deny Peterson’s request.
Trump supporters try to break through a police barrier at the Capitol in Washington on January 6. ((AP Photo/Julio Cortez, file))
There is uncertainty about whether Trump will pardon any, some, or all defendants who were convicted of crimes as a result of their involvement in the siege of the United States Capitol which happened in 2021.
Trump has said at times that pardons will be reserved for those who remained peaceful on that fateful day; however, in other points he has proposed a general pardon for all the condemned. One thing Trump has been adamant about is that the pardons will come quickly after his inauguration on January 20, 2025.
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The Justice Department declined to comment for this story.
