I shed no tears for the incarceration of violent thugs, even those who are (or pretend to be) MAGA.
Posted on 01/23/2025 7:21:52 AM PST by Red Badger
(The Center Square) – One of the several dozen Illinoisans charged with crimes during the Jan. 6, 2021, protests at the U.S. Capitol feels vindicated after a sweeping pardon by President Donald Trump.
In signing the executive order for the pardons on Day 1 of his administration, Trump called the defendants “hostages” and said they are getting a “full pardon.”
“This is a big one,” Trump said. “We hope they come out tonight.”
In addition to the immediate release of those serving time for convictions stemming from the riot, Trump’s order also directs the U.S. 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.”
Larry Ligas said he wasn’t at the capitol with any group that day. He was there by himself to try and have conversations about policy issues with legislators and others. Later, he was charged and said he was further pursued for challenging the charges.
“When I refused to weaken, to sit down with the FBI agents that I believed at that time were corrupted,” Ligas told The Center Square.
While grateful that he’s been vindicated by the president’s pardon, Ligas didn’t want a sweeping pardon, lumping his vindication with others.
“Even though I wish he would have done case-by-case, because I didn’t want to be blanketed in with the people that committed violence, the people that damaged the Capitol,” he said.
Ligas plans a news conference in Chicago at the Grand Kimball Lodge Thursday afternoon to further discuss the issue.
Some Jan. 6 defendants became so distraught at being charged for being at the Capitol that day in 2021 that they took their own lives, he said. Ligas said he’s still trying to recover from an unannounced early-morning raid and arrest.
“They physically damaged me, they emotionally, psychology [damaged me], I am still trying to recover from a lot of these damages,” he said.
Defending against the charges also brought a toll, as did an additional charge. Ligas is exploring suing prosecutors.
“I am seriously looking at it,” Ligas said. “Right now I am just trying to recuperate a little bit because my team and I, we were focusing on going to trial.”
Trump said the 1,500 people getting pardoned have endured horrible treatment by the previous administration.
May this person become a brand new 2025 multi millionair!
And the outcome will depend upon the presiding judges. Either way, it’s going to be a long process.
Sue Liz Cheney is state court.
IIRC there have been many,many people who’ve been behind bars for many months. I think I’ve read that many of them were given bail and are still awaiting trial. I thought the Constitution contains the right to a *speedy* trial. I wonder if any such person could sue because his/her speedy trial right has been violated.
Certainly...............
Hamas is better educated.................
If those responsible for this action pay personally that is fine. If the government, taxpayers, end up paying for this not so great.
The vast majority of citations and charges against George Floyd protesters were ultimately dropped, dismissed or otherwise not filed, according to a Guardian analysis of law enforcement records and media reports in a dozen jurisdictions around the nation.
Im sure a lot of folks would be more than willing to help out people who were unjustly treated by their govenrment to the point that their whole lives were ruined for simply protesting.
We have two systems of justice in this country.
One for Conservatives and one for Liberals.
The one for Liberals is non-functioning...............
Months? Try YEARS just awaiting a hearing.
The thugs who assaulted police officers should just shut up and be grateful they were pardoned at all. I don’t see how we can call ourselves the party of law and order after Trump’s blanket pardons of the January 6th rioters, including the violent offenders. I voted for him because I wanted lower grocery prices and an end to the trans madness, not this malarkey.
I shed no tears for the incarceration of violent thugs, even those who are (or pretend to be) MAGA.
The vast majority of PROTESTORS simply set foot on Capitol grounds and were tracked down arrested, thrown in prison, and never given trials for years- so don’t give me your crap- I never said a thing about the FEW that got violent!
Americans, especially patriots, don’t do very good it this country’s so-called courts but it’s worth a try.
That’s not what I see in the pictures. I see a lot of violent people who 100% belong in prison and maybe a few nonviolent ones.
Rosanne Boyland
was beat to death ?
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that you would defend the real thugs of j6 puts the lie to your about page
poser / infiltrator is what i think you are
“Either way, it’s going to be a long process.”
And it will have to reach into areas that are not in the desires of Larry Ligas and his sueing. The pardon is not for saying he is innocent, it just aleviates the penalty for the crime he was found guilty of or held for trial for. So he has no case as it was already determined and not changed, just freed from serving the penalty. For him to have a case he would have to go to trial and prove to overturn the action with a reversal of the determination of a crime that is already in the books.
wy69
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