In the days since President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of over 1,500 defendants from the Jan. 6 riot, several federal judges have issued blistering rebukes, painting his clemency orders as an affront to justice.
The pardons, described by Trump as a step toward “national reconciliation,” have led federal judges in Washington, D.C., to issue fiery responses to defendants seeking to have the Trump Justice Department remove their cases from the docket.
Judge Tanya Chutkan, an appointee of former President Barack Obama who oversaw Trump’s 2020 election federal criminal case, issued one of the most graphic condemnations Wednesday as she dismissed a pending case against a Capitol…
