{"id":29788,"date":"2025-01-06T15:08:01","date_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:08:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/trump-promised-pardons-for-january-6-rioters-in-first-hour-of-his-second-term-what-might-this-mean\/"},"modified":"2025-01-06T15:08:01","modified_gmt":"2025-01-06T15:08:01","slug":"trump-promised-pardons-for-january-6-rioters-in-first-hour-of-his-second-term-what-might-this-mean","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/trump-promised-pardons-for-january-6-rioters-in-first-hour-of-his-second-term-what-might-this-mean\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump promised pardons for January 6 rioters in \u2018first hour\u2019 of his second term. What might this mean?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Observers raise alarm about how pardons for convicted Capitol attackers might weaken US criminal justice system<\/p>\n<p>As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, politicians, legal observers and even sitting federal judges are expressing alarm about his stated intention to pardon or offer commutations to supporters who attacked the US Capitol on 6 January 2021 and were then convicted of crimes.<\/p>\n<p>Clemency for those who sought to block certification of Joe Biden\u2019s 2020 election victory \u201cwould undermine the US judiciary and criminal justice system and send a message to Americans that attacking US democratic institutions is appropriate and justifiable\u201d, said a spokesperson for the <a href=\"https:\/\/societyfortheruleoflaw.org\/leadership\/\">Society for the Rule of Law<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/jan\/06\/pardons-january-6-rioters-trump\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Observers raise alarm about how pardons for convicted Capitol attackers might weaken US criminal justice system As Donald Trump prepares to return to the White House, politicians, legal observers and even sitting federal judges are expressing alarm about his stated intention to pardon or offer commutations to supporters who attacked the US Capitol on 6 &#8230; <a title=\"Trump promised pardons for January 6 rioters in \u2018first hour\u2019 of his second term. What might this mean?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/01\/06\/trump-promised-pardons-for-january-6-rioters-in-first-hour-of-his-second-term-what-might-this-mean\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Trump promised pardons for January 6 rioters in \u2018first hour\u2019 of his second term. What might this mean?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29788","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29788","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29788"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29788\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29788"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29788"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29788"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}