Justice Department moves to dismiss Proud Boys and Oath Keepers’ seditious conspiracy convictions
https://edition.cnn.com/2026/04/14/politics/justice-department-vacate-seditious-conspiracy-convictions-proud-boys-oath-keepers
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WesternInfidels@feddit.online · 97 pts · 146d
These aren't charges they're dismissing. They're dismissing convictions. Dismissing a conviction sounds a lot like a pardon. I didn't know it was legally possible for a prosecutor to do that.
These people were found guilty through due process. Now the DOJ is re-writing history.
GuyFawkesV@lemmy.world · 27 pts · 146d
It’s possible to vacate convictions “in the interests of justice” - think someone on death row with exculpatory evidence found years later and a prosecutor mature enough to admit they made a mistake. Or in this case a corrupt DOJ and a corrupt court system working in concert.
None of this should be working like this.
DarthPub@retrofed.com · 86 pts · 146d
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 41 pts · 146d
Which ones? The ones being pardoned or the ones doing the pardoning?
halcyoncmdr@piefed.social · 36 pts · 146d
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 18 pts · 146d
All of them. There needs to be Nuremberg trials 2.0.
Mihies@programming.dev · 17 pts · 146d
Yes
aarch0x40@piefed.social · 56 pts · 146d
They'll be back before a judge on various pedophilia and sexual assault charges soon enough.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 15 pts · 146d
I appreciate your optimism
13igTyme@piefed.social · 10 pts · 146d
They didn't say convicted, they just said back.
Entertainmeonly@lemmy.blahaj.zone · 5 pts · 146d
Still optimistic
AbidanYre@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 145d
Not really, it's already happened to a few of them.
zikzak025@lemmy.world · 9 pts · 146d
You're not far off. I recall seeing this story appear in some comm here a few weeks ago:
https://www.wwlp.com/news/crime/amherst-man-sentenced-for-child-pornography-after-jan-6-pardon/
village604@adultswim.fan · 6 pts · 146d
And that wasn't the first time it happened.
finallymadeanaccount@lemmy.world · 8 pts · 146d
They have to get work with ICE and traffick kidnapped minors for Donny for a few months first.
rayyy@piefed.social · 20 pts · 146d
Just in time to start a presidential run.
gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.works · 19 pts · 146d
Hmmm sounds like maybe we need to find a form of justice that can’t be dismissed
TrickDacy@lemmy.world · 13 pts · 146d
But if they were minority children exonerated by DNA evidence they'd do fuck-all about it. Zero hyperbole involved to call these fucks disgusting Nazis.
santa@sh.itjust.works · 10 pts · 146d
Fuck this!
eletes@sh.itjust.works · 6 pts · 146d
Probably making deals pre-midterms. We'll keep you out of jail if you intimidate blue state elections. Hell we'll give you an ICE uniform on top of that
breakfastmtn@lemmy.ca · 2 pts · 146d
Man, Woody Harrelson really let himself go, huh