A decision of leadership in functions in the United States Department of Justice To eliminate its public websites and cases of cases of the siege of January 6 in the prosecution of the Capitol, it has caused a legal challenge of a surveillance group and setback from a federal judge who supervised some of the cases.
The controversial decision has also caused the anger of one of the uproar who declared themselves guilty.
The Department of Justice had built a complete database of the approximately 1,600 accused of the attack of the Capitol of the United States and had produced a monthly set of reports that update the Prosecutor’s Office, which was the largest in the long history of the agency. Last week, the database and the designated public websites darkened, since the agency stopped its prosecutions of the uproar, under the orders of President Trump.
The deletion of public resources and information occurred during a transition period in the agency, with still pending confirmation votes for the attorney-general prosecutor Pam Bondi and FBI-nominated director Kash Patel.
In an opinion issued on ThursdayThe judge of the United States District Court, Paul Friedman, said the elimination of public information by the interim leadership of the Department of Justice. Friedman included a recent version of the long database in his public ruling, which can be accessed on the website of the Federal Court system.
The list in Friedman’s order reflects the database of the Purgated Justice Department, lists the binded binded in alphabetical order and observes their conviction and sentences.
Friedman also blister Mr. Trump’s proclamation that the prosecutions of January 6 were a “perpetrated national injustice” in the US people. Friedman wrote: “The claim of the proclamation, if factically incorrect. There has not been a” serious national injustice. “And just because the proclamation was signed by the president is not transformed down or down as if looking through the glass in ‘Alicia in Wonderland’ “.
Citizens for ethics and responsibility in WashingtonA Governmental Surveillance Group based in DC that frequently analyzes Trump, has issued a public letter that seeks investigation by the office of the Department of Justice of General Inspector and the United States archivist to determine whether the elimination of public data on January 6 was a violation of the law.
The letter said“The elimination of the Department of Justice of this vital information about its prosecutions that arise from the attack of January 6, 2021 against the Capitol is consistent with the continuous efforts of President Trump to rewriter or erase the insurrection, and also a probable violation of the federal law”.
The Watchdog Group letter also said: “Despite the agency’s requirement to notify the archivist of eliminating these records, there are no indications that this matter has been reported to Nara, and a list of ‘unauthorized disposition cases’ Open on the Nara website does not reveal any report of this type.
Mr. Trump’s allies in Congress have been accused of their own efforts to erase the history of January 6. The republican leadership of the Chamber has challenged a 2022 law that requires hanging a formal plaque on the lands of the United States Capitol to honor the police heroes who saved the Capitol and the Congress of the attack.
The president of the House of Representatives, Mike Johnson, has refused to specify whether the plate will be hung or when it will be hung.
The Democrats also criticized the Republicans for not recognizing the insurrection of the Capitol and their victims in the four -year brand of the attack, on January 6, 2025. Republican leaders in the Chamber and the Senate did not have a vigil or commemoration for the victims that had previously been staged in the Capitol in previous years.
Pam Hempill, a Idaho woman who declared himself guilty of a minor crime for her role in the violation of the United States Capitol, told CBS News that the elimination of public records of January 6 “is only the last step To rewrite the story for its benefit and it is more proof of its total contempt for the rule of law. “
“I would not be surprised if you are going to try to ban the books and articles that document the facts about the Capitol Motor,” said Hephill.
Scott Macfarlane
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