2 judges press pause on J6 trials as Trump considers pardons

By Bob Unruh

Two judges in the Washington, D.C., region are pressing pause on various trials for Jan. 6, 2021, case defendants amid President-elect Donald Trump’s confirmation he’ll consider pardons for them.

Multiple thousands of individuals who were part of a protest against suspicious developments in the 2020 presidential election have been charged and convicted of offenses like trespassing for walking into the Capitol building when authorities said it was “closed.”

They sometimes walked past security guards who were holding the doors open for them, but nonetheless were charged anyway.

About 600 already have been given, and many have served, prison terms.