They sentenced the January 6 rioters. Now, these judges are calling out Trump and ‘poor losers’

The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol attack.

The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood, feces, and terror” from the US Capitol attack. The orders from the judges serve as a reminder of the judiciary’s work and factual findings bringing to justice guilty pleas, trials and sentencings for more than 1,000 rioters, both those who walked into the building then left as well as far more violent participants who fought police and other law enforcement officers. Tanya Chutkan, the judge who oversaw Trump’s 2020 election federal criminal case, wrote some of the most graphic descriptions as she dismissed one of the pending rioter cases before her on Wednesday. Dismissing the case, Chutkan wrote, “cannot whitewash the blood, feces, and terror that the mob left in its wake. And it cannot repair the jagged breach in America’s sacred tradition of peacefully transitioning power.” Their language also serves as a political statement following Trump’s sweeping pardons, standing in stark contrast to the president and other Republicans who are making celebrities of former prisoners. Trump, in his executive order late Monday, said he was ending “a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years” to begin a “process of national reconciliation.”