Justice Department officials may be considering not prosecuting all troublemakers who illegally violated the United States Capitol on January 6, according to a Washington Post report on Saturday – a move that could be controversial.
The publication reported that the Justice Department is in the early stages of discussing this route, but Fox News was unable to contact the department to confirm the decision.
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Approximately 120 people were charged with breaking into the Capitol earlier this month, although with hundreds of other pro-Trump supporters who accused the legislative building, federal prosecutors may be looking at years of pumping cases into the courts.
District Attorney General of Columbia, Michael Sherwin, promised “to present as many charges as we can based on conduct”.
“We are not leaving anything out of our arsenal for potential charges,” Sherwin told a news conference earlier this month. “We will bring as many charges as we can based on the conduct.”
Federal prosecutors said there was evidence that at least some of the protesters who accused the building did so with the intention of “capturing and murdering” elected officials.
Videos that appeared during and after the event on social media showed several people calling the names of specific legislators, such as House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, MP Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, DN.Y., and former Vice President Mike Pence – suggesting they were targeting elected officials.
Neither Pelosi nor Ocasio-Cortez could be reached immediately for comment, but both responded to the attack on the Capitol with an aggressive reaction.
Pelosi led the charge of seeing President Trump removed from the White House a second time after the attack.
“We know that the President of the United States has incited this insurrection, this armed rebellion, against our common country,” said House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, before the vote. “He must go. He is a clear and present danger to the nation that we all love.”
And Ocasio-Cortez pushed for Republican lawmakers, who opposed the votes of the state’s Electoral College, to be removed from office.
An estimated 800 people accused the Capitol in protest against the results of the Electoral College, largely due to Trump’s continuing allegations that the election was “rigged”, although the Justice Department said there was no evidence of electoral fraud. widespread.
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Some federal officials now believe that those who did not engage in violent or threatening behavior at the Capitol should not be charged, despite having committed “illegal entry” to the Capitol building, the Washington Post reported.