WASHINGTON – US Senate Republicans on Tuesday condemned the pardon of President Donald Trump’s supporters for violently attacking and wounding police officers when they broke into the Capitol on January 6, 2021.
Democrat Sen. Patty Murray demanded unanimous consent Solved On the floor, we met opposition from the majority Whip John Baraso.
Unanimous consent is a common route that senators take for simple resolutions, military appointments, and other actions, but adoption can be blocked by one senator.
Hours after the inauguration on January 20th, Trump commuteed to the prisons of 14 of the most serious offenders on January 6th. At the same time, he gave the remainder of the approximately 1,560 defendants a “complete, complete and unconditional pardon.”
Murray, representing Washington, said Trump’s decision to forgive violent defendants was “a truly unthinkable attempt to erase the facts of the day.”
“It’s the betrayal of law enforcement that protected us all that day and protected the dangerous support of political violence, and as long as we serve criminals, Donald Trump, within inches of life, I tell them I can defeat him,” Murray said. .
All 47 democratic and independent senators co-hosted a 19-word resolution that “disapproves the pardon of an individual convicted of attacking lawmaker police officers.”
Biden also issued an amnesty
Barrasso, a Republican from Wyoming, blocked the measure. He argued that “Democrats don’t want serious discussions about the use of the president’s amnesty rights here,” as former President Joe Biden had. Given Thousands of pardons and commutations before resigning.
“If they wanted a serious conversation, they would talk about Joe Biden’s pardon about over 8,000 people,” Barrasso said. “The former president took office on his last day and gave generosity to 37 of the worst murderers on death row.”
Biden sets it record Acknowledge thousands of tolerance for most pardons and commutations Non-violence Drug criminal. The former president opposed to the death penalty is well documented; commute The death sentence for 37 federal prisoners will be replaced by life sentences. He left three prisoners on death row inmates.
Just before leaving the White House, Biden admitted. Preemptive pardon To all the members who sat on the Congressional Committee to investigate the January 6 attack, and to the four officers who testified before the panel.
He also preemptively forgives Dr. Anthony Fauci and retires General Mark Millie.
Biden elicited criticism in early December I forgive his sonHunter pleaded guilty to tax violations after being convicted of federal gun charges. In his final moments in office, Biden gave five members of his family the first pardon.
Attack on the police
More than 140 U.S. Capitol Police and Washington police were injured that day, according to the Department of Justice.
Several other Democrat senators spoke on the floor about a specific attack on law enforcement on Jan. 6, and four officers. He died of suicide A few days after the attack.
“How does this line up with backing the blue? Arizona Sen. Mark Kelly said.
State Newsroom I’ve come near The day after Trump issued an amnesty for comments on the tolerance of violent criminals, he was close to a Republican senator.
With just a few exceptions, almost all refused to talk and said they either biased to criticize Biden’s pardon or haven’t read Trump’s 334-word order to free the accused from punishment I did.
Of all defendants, 608 people charged with assaulting, resisting or obstructing law enforcement agencies, including 174 people accused of using deadly or dangerous weapons or seriously injured officers. It was done. Almost a third pleaded guilty to attacking law enforcement, and 69 people were blatant or improvised weapons, including furniture that mobs had been destroyed inside the Capitol and police riot shields. and pleaded guilty to doing so.
Last updated at 5:24pm, January 28, 2025
