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Proclamation 10887
Granting Pardons and Commutation of Sentences for Certain Offenses Relating to the Events at or Near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021
Signed January 20, 2025, printed at 90 FR 8331. 321 words.
This gives clemency for the Capitol riot on January 6, 2021. All but 14 people found guilty get a full pardon. The other 14 had their prison terms cut to time served.
What It Says
By the President of the United States of America A Proclamation This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation. Acting pursuant to the grant of authority in Article II, Section 2, of the Constitution of the United States, I do hereby: (a) commute the sentences of the following individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, to time served as of January 20, 2025: Stewart Rhodes Kelly Meggs Kenneth Harrelson Thomas Caldwell Jessica Watkins Roberto Minuta Edward Vallejo David Moerschel Joseph Hackett Ethan Nordean Joseph Biggs Zachary Rehl Dominic Pezzola Jeremy Bertino (b) grant a full, complete and unconditional pardon to all other individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021; The Attorney General shall administer and effectuate the immediate issuance of certificates of pardon to all individuals described in section (b) above, and shall ensure that all individuals convicted of offenses related to events that occurred at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021, who are currently held in prison are released immediately. The Bureau of Prisons shall immediately implement all instructions from the Department of Justice regarding this directive. I further direct the Attorney General to pursue dismissal with prejudice to the government of all pending indictments against individuals for their conduct related to the events at or near the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. The Bureau of Prisons shall immediately implement all instructions from the Department of Justice regarding this directive. IN WITNESS WHEREOF, I have hereunto set my hand this twentieth day of January, in the year of our Lord two thousand twenty-five, and of the Independence of the United States of America the two hundred and forty- ninth.
What a Proclamation Is
A proclamation speaks to the country rather than to the government. Most mark a day or an occasion; some carry real legal effect, and the tariff proclamations are the ones that do.
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