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USA Today
4 minutes ago
- USA Today
Donald Trump's Jan. 6 pardons cast a long shadow over justice six months later
President Donald Trump has done more than pardon J6 rioters. He's also targeting the FBI investigators as he weaponized the Department of Justice. On this, the six-month anniversary of President Donald Trump's sweeping pardons for more than 1,500 people accused or convicted of invading and ransacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, let's check in on some of the people arrested for that riot and how the president's team is rewriting history to make the FBI and Department of Justice the bad guys. People Trump pardoned for Jan. 6 crimes have since been arrested for soliciting a minor for sex, for commercial burglary and for home invasion. And the FBI agents and federal prosecutors who worked on those Jan. 6 cases have been demonized by Trump as his administration ends their careers for the offense of doing their jobs. One J6er tried to use Trump's pardon to beat child porn charges Kyle Travis Colton, a California man arrested and accused in December 2023 for using a flagpole to assault a police officer at the Capitol on Jan. 6, pleaded guilty in October 2024. Trump pardoned him three and a half months later. But Colton had more trouble with the law. An FBI search when he was arrested found Colton's computer held "copious images and videos depicting graphic sexual abuse of young children." Colton's attorney argued that Trump's pardon applied to his child porn, too, because it was discovered as part of the Jan. 6 investigation. A federal judge didn't buy that, and a jury in California convicted Colton on July 15. He faces a mandatory minimum of five years in prison when sentenced on Oct. 27. Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, a good government nonprofit known as CREW, tracks pardoned insurrectionists accused of other crimes before or after the Jan. 6 riot. Matthew Huttle, an Indiana man sentenced to six months in prison for crimes he committed on Jan. 6, pulled a gun and struggled with a sheriff's deputy during a traffic stop six days after Trump pardoned him. The deputy shot and killed him. Edward Kelley of Tennessee was convicted in November 2024 for assaulting police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6. Trump pardoned him before he was sentenced. But Kelley was also convicted in November 2024 on charges that he conspired to kill the FBI agents who investigated him. His lawyers had argued that Trump's pardon should also apply to the murder plot. He was sentenced to life in prison earlier this month. What's the messaging on election results going forward? Noah Bookbinder, CREW's president, told me he expects more people pardoned for Jan. 6 crimes will be re-arrested. And he worries that federal investigators and prosecutors now know they face retaliation if their work runs counter to what Trump wants. "These are people who showed their lawlessness and who feel empowered," Bookbinder said. "And so there's a very specific danger there, on the flip side of that, at the Department of Justice, that attorneys who work at the department and agents who work at the FBI feel very uncertain in their roles, uncertain that they can do their jobs without facing consequences if the president and the administration see anything that these Justice Department personnel do as adverse to their interests." The Jan. 6 insurrection was a failed bid to overturn the free and fair 2020 election, egged on by Trump, who continues to routinely lie about how American elections are run. So what happens if Trump doesn't like the results of next year's midterm elections, when control of Congress is up for grabs? "I think we have to assume, going forward, that a lot of people in this country are going to feel like they don't have to accept the results of elections if they don't like those results, particularly if those results are seen as going against Donald Trump," Bookbinder said, "and that using force to get to the election results they want is OK and is even encouraged." Republicans have made it clear they want to target law enforcement Just look at the DOJ team Trump has assembled and ask yourself if they prioritize justice or pleasing the president. Emil Bove, a senior DOJ official who privately represented Trump when he was convicted of 34 felonies in a 2024 business fraud criminal case, saw his appointment for a lifetime seat on a federal appeals court advance on a party-line vote in a Senate committee on July 17. This happened despite a letter sent to the Senate from more than 900 former DOJ employees, accusing Bove of being a "leader in the assault" on the careers of prosecutors and FBI agents who did their jobs investigating Jan. 6 to hold rioters accountable. Trump, who sparked the Jan. 6 riot, campaigned on retribution. Bove is his retribution delivery boy. The DOJ alumni noted Bove's "breathtaking act of hypocrisy," since he had previously overseen parts of the Jan. 6 investigation as an assistant U.S. Attorney in New York before pivoting to target his colleagues for the same thing. Then there's Jared Wise, a former FBI supervisory special agent from Oregon who was accused of rooting for rioters to attack police officers at the Capitol on Jan. 6 and was indicted for that in May 2023. He was standing trial on Jan. 20 when Trump was sworn in for a second term and included Wise in his sweeping pardons. The DOJ dropped his case that day. Wise got more than a reprieve from responsibility. Trump gave him a job. At the DOJ. In the so-called "Weaponization Working Group," which grew out of Trump's Jan. 20 executive order – the same day Wise got his pardon – which whined that the DOJ had "ruthlessly prosecuted more than 1,500 individuals" for crimes committed on Jan. 6. Read between the lines, and what you really see is that Trump knew Jan. 6 was a stain on our democracy and was directly his fault. So he wants to rewrite that history, to make himself the victim of the calamity he caused. And he's building a team to do just that. So the next time a MAGA crowd decides to storm a government building, beating police officers, smashing windows, stealing computers and smearing their feces on the walls, ask yourself if Team Trumpers like Wise will root for rioters while searching for ways to blame Trump's perceived enemies. Will Bove, if a full Senate vote gives him a lifetime federal judgeship, consider cases according to the strictures of the U.S. Constitution – or just focus on whatever result Trump wants? Trump has twisted and transformed the Republican Party in many ways. The GOP used to tout "law and order" as a bedrock of democracy. Justice is now a team sport, where accountability for action can be canceled with adulation for authority. Follow USA TODAY columnist Chris Brennan on X, formerly known as Twitter: @ByChrisBrennan. Sign up for his weekly newsletter, Translating Politics, here.
Bloomberg
5 minutes ago
- Bloomberg
What Happens When the World's Population Starts Shrinking?
Welcome back to The Forecast from Bloomberg Weekend, where we help you think about the future — from next week to next decade. This weekend we're looking at depopulation — as well as whether Trump will fire Powell, elderly college students and more.
Boston Globe
an hour ago
- Boston Globe
Trump's attack on in-state tuition for Dreamers is bad law — and worse policy
Get The Gavel A weekly SCOTUS explainer newsletter by columnist Kimberly Atkins Stohr. Enter Email Sign Up Other surveys — by the Advertisement Among the targets of the administration's hostility, none elicits more sympathy from the public than the so‑called Dreamers — young people brought here unlawfully as children, who have grown up as Americans in everything but paperwork. (According to Gallup, Advertisement In lawsuits filed this spring against Texas, Minnesota, and Kentucky, the Justice Department maintains that offering in‑state tuition to students without legal immigration status — even if they were brought here as small children and essentially grew up American — violates federal law. In reality, it is the administration's assault that distorts federal law. It is also a brazen power grab that tramples states' rights, to say nothing of basic decency. Beginning in 2001, Democratic and Republican legislatures decided that if young people grow up in a state, are educated in its schools, and want to pursue higher education within its borders, it makes no sense to penalize them financially merely because of their immigration status. If there are good reasons to give a break on tuition to local students who want to go to a local college, what difference does it make whether they have a passport, a green card, or neither? Yet on April 28, President Trump Advertisement But that isn't true. Federal law does not say that undocumented immigrants must be excluded from any in-state tuition benefit. It Accordingly, the states that offer reduced tuition to undocumented immigrants condition the offer on criteria other than residency. States that offer in‑state tuition to undocumented students are acting not just humanely but rationally. Such policies reflect the common-sense principle that justifies giving a tuition break to any local student: It is in every state's interest to help its homegrown young people be as successful and well educated as possible. Lower tuition makes higher education more affordable, which in turn boosts the number of local families that can send their kids to college, which in turn expands the state's population of educated adults. A more educated population strengthens the state's economy, since college graduates are more likely to be employed and to earn higher incomes. For states like Massachusetts, which suffers from high outmigration, a particularly strong argument for the in-state tuition break is that graduates of public institutions are more likely to Advertisement None of these arguments has any logical connection to immigration or citizenship. They apply with equal force to those born abroad and to those born locally. And it is irrelevant whether those born abroad were brought to America by parents who had immigration visas or by parents who didn't. Dreamers aren't freeloaders. Like their families, they pay taxes — property taxes, sales taxes, income taxes, and even the payroll taxes that fund Social Security and Medicare benefits, for which they are ineligible. (In 2022, according to the latest estimate from the Institute on Taxation and Economic Policy, undocumented immigrants Aside from the Trumpian hard core, most Americans sympathize with the plight of undocumented immigrants who grew up in this country and have known no other home. That explains why (as Gallup reports) 85 percent of them would like Congress to make it possible for them to acquire citizenship. It also explains why in-state tuition for Dreamers has bipartisan support: The states that have enacted such policies include Oklahoma, Kentucky, California, and New York. Advertisement The Trump administration's lawsuits deserve to be dismissed on their legal merits, but they also deserve to be reviled as one more example of MAGA malevolence, which is grounded in nothing except a desire to hurt immigrants — Few Americans have any desire to punish young people who have done nothing wrong. The cruelty at the heart of Trump's immigration policy may thrill his base, but it repels a far larger America unwilling to abandon its values. Jeff Jacoby can be reached at
