Justice Department moves to dismiss Proud Boys and Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy convictions
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/14/politics/justice-department-vacate-seditious-conspiracy-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepersOpen linkView original on lemmy.nz
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These aren't charges they're dismissing. They're dismissing convictions. Dismissing a conviction sounds a lot like a pardon. I didn't know it was legally possible for a prosecutor to do that.
These people were found guilty through due process. Now the DOJ is re-writing history.
It’s possible to vacate convictions “in the interests of justice” - think someone on death row with exculpatory evidence found years later and a prosecutor mature enough to admit they made a mistake. Or in this case a corrupt DOJ and a corrupt court system working in concert.
None of this should be working like this.
Which ones? The ones being pardoned or the ones doing the pardoning?
All of them. There needs to be Nuremberg trials 2.0.
Yes
They'll be back before a judge on various pedophilia and sexual assault charges soon enough.
I appreciate your optimism
They didn't say convicted, they just said back.
Still optimistic
Not really, it's already happened to a few of them.
You're not far off. I recall seeing this story appear in some comm here a few weeks ago:
https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/amherst-man-sentenced-for-child-pornography-after-jan-6-pardon/
And that wasn't the first time it happened.
They have to get work with ICE and traffick kidnapped minors for Donny for a few months first.
Just in time to start a presidential run.
Hmmm sounds like maybe we need to find a form of justice that can’t be dismissed
But if they were minority children exonerated by DNA evidence they'd do fuck-all about it. Zero hyperbole involved to call these fucks disgusting Nazis.
Fuck this!
Probably making deals pre-midterms. We'll keep you out of jail if you intimidate blue state elections. Hell we'll give you an ICE uniform on top of that
Man, Woody Harrelson really let himself go, huh