The deletions include press releases documenting criminal charges, guilty pleas, convictions, and sentencing tied to the Jan. 6 attack, which saw supporters of President Donald Trump storm the Capitol in an effort to block the certification of his loss to Joe Biden in the 2020 election.
“We are proud to reverse the DOJ’s weaponization under the Biden administration,” the department wrote. “We will do everything in our power to make whole those who were persecuted for political purposes. This includes stripping DOJ’s website of partisan propaganda.”
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Sen. Dick Durbin, a Democrat from Illinois, wrote in a letter to Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche that “the notion of the federal government doling out compensation to rioters” was “absurd and offensive.” Republican Sen. Thom Tillis, of North Carolina, meanwhile, described the fund as a “payout pot for punks” while speaking on CNN’s “State of the Union” on Sunday.
Last month, the DOJ asked a federal appeals court to vacate those seditious conspiracy convictions, a request that was granted Thursday. The department moved on Friday to dismiss the cases.
Trump, on his first day back in office in January 2025, pardoned or commuted the sentences of more than 1,500 people charged in connection with the Capitol attack, including individuals convicted of assaulting police officers.
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