Posted on 08/27/2025 6:17:03 AM PDT by logi_cal869
The Justice Department is asking a federal court to dismiss a lawsuit brought against it by members of the Proud Boys who claim their convictions related to the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack were the result of “political prosecution.”
In court filing Monday, the Justice Department argued the lawsuit should be tossed out for reasons including that “the malicious prosecution claim lacks merit; and the United States is not liable for punitive damages.”
DOJ’s defense of the prosecutions, however, appears to go against what Republicans and President Donald Trump’s allies have long argued: that the hundreds of cases brought against people who participated in the January 6 attack often amounted to political persecution from Joe Biden’s Justice Department because they targeted Trump supporters.
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the Proud Boys, Joseph Biggs, Ethan Nordean, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola sued the government in June for $100 million, claiming their prosecutions amounted to an “egregious and systemic abuse of the legal system and the United States Constitution to punish and oppress political allies of President Trump, by any and all means necessary, legal, or illegal.”
The lawsuit came months after Trump pardoned Tarrio and commuted the sentences of the other four men. The president has also personally defended pardoning people who assaulted police officers on January 6.
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“The people who did this, they need to feel the heat. They need to be put behind bars and they need to be prosecuted,” Tarrio said in an interview with the right-wing host Alex Jones at the time.
In its Monday court filing, however, the Justice Department said the men’s lawsuit “should be dismissed in its entirety,” because they presented no evidence that law enforcement or the prosecutors “relied on knowingly false or fabricated evidence to initiate” their prosecution.
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Is Tarrio the one who never even went to DC on Jan 6th?
The first job of anyone running an organization is to keep that agency on its budget and out of things that are not on their priority list. I’d be amazed if the DOJ didn’t fight getting into a fight they’d likely lose.
Tarrio, a Cuban Black exile, was in Baltimore on J6.
I hope they win... and all the J6 prisoners eventually receive restitution, and all those who abused them in prison are jailed.
Correct. Was in a different city, and, I’ve read, don’t know if true, was an FBI informant at the time.
Starting this week, maybe even today, the president will be getting questions about this situation. He may not be ready to provide an opinion, but he may want to prepare some sort of response.
And how she framed George Zimmerman. The same trash that defended Sessions and Bagpipes Bill defend this deep state pig.
https://spectator.org/pam-bondi-atone-framing-george-zimmerman/
Considering the diversity in leadership and membership of both groups... I’m still scratching my head over how the Left got both the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys listed as “racist hate groups”...
That alone should be grounds for at minimum defamation.
Agreed.
Additionally, the optics of the so-called ‘federal takeover’ of D.C. would have been greatly enhanced - and more ‘trigger’ effect for the left - had they shut down the ‘gulag’ and fired all of the staff there. IMHO
Betrayal - Bondi should let the suit go forward and use the trial to get exposed the deep state FBI and DOJ actors that ought to be removed.
Personally, I’d like to see the many victims of the J6 witch hunt get settlements big enough to retire on.
How? They follow the Southern Poverty Lawcenter guidelines.
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