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Federal prosecutors charged 18 people in connection with the Jan. 6 attack with the rarely used Civil War–era count of seditious conspiracy; according to reporting aggregated in these sources, 14 of t...
On January 20, 2025, issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that pardoned the vast majority of people charged in connection with the , attack — approximately 1,500 to 1,583 defendants by contemporane...
Fourteen high-profile defendants associated with the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were prosecuted on seditious-conspiracy or closely related insurrection statutes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, Cap...
Multiple high-profile defendants tied to organized extremist groups were charged with and convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack; sentences have range...
The central, verifiable finding is that , with multiple leaders convicted in separate trials and sentenced (sources from 2022 through 2025 document those prosecutions). Reporting and court records ide...