Democrats Introduce Resolution Condemning Donald Trump's Jan. 6 Pardons
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Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.) will ask the Senate for “unanimous consent” to adopt the resolution this week. A single senator can block the request.
WASHINGTON — All Senate Democrats co-sponsored a symbolic resolution condemning President Donald Trump for pardoning rioters who have attacked police.
The resolution, which would have no practical effect if the Senate adopted it, is narrow in scope, stating simply that “the Senate disapproves of any pardons for individuals who were found guilty of assaulting Capitol Police officers.”
Trump’s sweeping clemency action on his first day in office pardoned everyone charged with crimes connected to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot, including the most violent offenders who attacked police. The only exceptions were for 14 members of militant groups charged with seditious conspiracy; Trump commuted their prison sentences while stopping short of a full pardon.
Democrats’ resolution focuses only on the subset of rioters who attacked police. Of the more than 1,600 rioters charged with crimes, more than 600 were charged with assaulting, resisting or impeding law enforcement, including more than 169 charged with using a weapon or injuring an officer.
“I refuse to allow President Trump to rewrite what happened on January 6th — armed insurrectionists, incited by Trump himself, broke into the U.S. Capitol and violently assaulted Capitol Police officers in their attempt to overthrow a free and fair election,” Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), the lead sponsor of the resolution, said in a press release. “Insurrectionists cracked the ribs of police officers and smashed spinal disks. Donald Trump’s pardons are a wholesale endorsement of political violence — as long as it serves Donald Trump.”
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