U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rebuked President Donald Trump's blanket pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in a new court filing.

A federal judge says President Donald Trump's mass pardons for rioters who stormed the U.S. Capitol won't change the truth of what happened in the nation's capital four years ago.

A federal judge who oversaw several trials for January 6 rioters has a furious response to President Donald Trump's decision pardoning 1,500 people who stormed the Capitol, Politico reported on Wednesday.

The clemency grants by departing President Joe Biden and new President Donald Trump — one benefiting uncharged people not accused of wrongdoing, the other aiding rioters convicted of violent felonies — are vastly different in scope, impact, and their meaning for the rule of law.

"Dismissals of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences will not change the truth of what happened on January 6, 2021," U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly wrote in ...

On his first day in office, President Donald Trump pardoned nearly 1,600 people who had been charged in connection with the Jan. 6 Capitol riot, some already serving prison sentences and some ...

Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly — who was appointed by former President Bill Clinton — threw out the case of a man she found guilty at trial for his role in the violent demonstrations.

The activists were sentenced by Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, a Clinton appointee, and immediately detained. While signing the pardons ...

Jan. 21, 2025 U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said evidence of the Jan. 6 assault on the Capitol is preserved through the “neutral lens” of riot videos, trial transcripts ...

In another case, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly questioned the Justice Department’s move to dismiss an obstruction of justice charge against Nicholas L. Kennedy. Kollar-Kotelly said the DOJ should ...

In her orders dismissing Jan. 6 cases, Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said the facts are now for history to judge. “Dismissals of charges, pardons after convictions, and commutations of sentences ...

“This Court cannot let stand the revisionist myth relayed in this presidential pronouncement.” District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly said that lengthy court filings — including “thousands of contemporaneous videos, transcripts of trials, jury ...