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Charges of seditious conspiracy against members of extremist groups accused of planning and coordinating the breach.
The people who stormed the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021 were charged with a broad array of federal and local crimes that range from misdemeanors like trespass to felonies—including obstruction of a...
Federal prosecutors ultimately brought seditious-conspiracy charges only against a small subset of Jan. 6 defendants — concentrated in two organized groups — and courts adjudicated those cases through...
On January 20, 2025, President Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that pardoned most convicted January 6 defendants and commuted the sentences of 14 high-profile defendants, producing immed...
Sentences for leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were, until the January 2025 clemency actions, among the harshest handed down in the sprawling January 6 prosecutions—ranging from double‑d...