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By January 6, 2022, one year after the attack, more than 725 people had been charged for their involvement; over the following year, the number increased to more than 950. [50] [51] A thousand people had been charged with federal crimes by the end of January 2023, two years after the attack, [4] rising to more than 1,100 in August 2023. [52]
On January 6, 2021, Trump supporters attacked the Capitol, disrupting the joint session of Congress assembled to count electoral votes to formalize Biden's victory in the 2020 United States presidential election. [1] By the end of the year, 725 people had been charged with federal crimes.
[378] [379] Text messages from Department of Homeland Security leaders Chad Wolf and Ken Cuccinelli "are missing from a key period leading up to the January 6 attack". [380] Wolf's nomination had been withdrawn by the White House sometime on January 6. [381] A criminal investigation was opened into the deletion. [382]
Protesters outside the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. (Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times) Rally organizers told the National Park Service that they anticipated 30,000 people would attend.
Many participants in the January 6 attack were arrested in the days and months that followed, [60] which saw the largest criminal investigation in U.S. history. [61] According to a New York Times report in May 2023, "While many people have called the events of Jan. 6 an 'insurrection,' the Justice Department has not charged any rioters with ...
On January 20, 2025, during the first day of his second term, United States President Donald Trump issued a proclamation that granted clemency to about 1,200 people convicted of offenses related to the January 6 United States Capitol attack that occurred near the end of his first presidential term. [1]
In one, Alito was among several justices who questioned the Justice Department’s use of an obstruction statute to prosecute people involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
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