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Justice Department seeks to dismiss lawsuit filed by Proud Boys over January 6 prosecutions
cnn ^ | 8/26/2025 | Mary Kay Mallonee

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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KEYWORDS: bondi; insurrectionists; j6

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1 posted on 08/27/2025 6:17:03 AM PDT by logi_cal869
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2 posted on 08/27/2025 6:17:51 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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Is Tarrio the one who never even went to DC on Jan 6th?


3 posted on 08/27/2025 6:23:09 AM PDT by Pollard (Gettin' things done)
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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.


4 posted on 08/27/2025 6:25:20 AM PDT by Gen.Blather (I had a tagline and I dropped it. The cat back-pawed it under the Barcalounger. )
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5 posted on 08/27/2025 6:27:04 AM PDT by Pollard (Gettin' things done)
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Tarrio, a Cuban Black exile, was in Baltimore on J6.


6 posted on 08/27/2025 6:29:10 AM PDT by Does so ("Things will now change in Minneapolis AND AT HOME"....Dem☭¢rat... ∅ one ™ ¿ ¡ ☞ ½¼)
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I hope they win... and all the J6 prisoners eventually receive restitution, and all those who abused them in prison are jailed.


7 posted on 08/27/2025 6:31:12 AM PDT by BuchananBrigadeTrumpFan (If in doubt, it's probably sarcasm)
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To: Pollard

Correct. Was in a different city, and, I’ve read, don’t know if true, was an FBI informant at the time.


8 posted on 08/27/2025 6:34:33 AM PDT by vivenne (7Come to think of it. Fact)
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To: logi_cal869

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.


9 posted on 08/27/2025 6:49:19 AM PDT by lee martell
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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/


10 posted on 08/27/2025 7:15:01 AM PDT by HYPOCRACY (Wake up, smell the cat food in your bank account. )
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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.


11 posted on 08/27/2025 7:24:33 AM PDT by Dead Corpse (A Psalm in napalm...)
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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


12 posted on 08/27/2025 7:38:31 AM PDT by logi_cal869 (-cynicus the "concern troll" a/o 10/03/2018 "/!i!! &@$%&*(@ -')
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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.


13 posted on 08/27/2025 10:48:14 AM PDT by Wuli (uire)
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Personally, I’d like to see the many victims of the J6 witch hunt get settlements big enough to retire on.


14 posted on 08/27/2025 4:45:43 PM PDT by unlearner (I'm tired of being not tired of winning.)
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To: Dead Corpse

How? They follow the Southern Poverty Lawcenter guidelines.


15 posted on 08/27/2025 8:41:48 PM PDT by Pete from Shawnee Mission ( )
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