D.C. Gulag Held J6 Prisoners Hostage Despite Trump's Pardons

Posted • January 22, 2025: A day after President Trump issued pardons or sentence commutations for all January 6 defendants (Promise Kept: With the Stroke of a Pen, President Trump Issues Mass Pardons for J6 Defendants – RedState), a large number of them remained confined in the DC jail. A few inmates had been released from the D.C. jail in Southeast by midday Tuesday, as a crowd of frustrated supporters awaited additional releases. Officials repeatedly said more inmates would be released soon. Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Chip Roy were outside the jail. “Let our people go!” supporters chanted for hours as they watched the front door. The authority to hold these prisoners expired at midnight on Monday. The Fourteenth Amendment clearly states that the government can't "deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." Instead, they were subject to unlawful detention that is nearly indistinguishable from kidnapping or abduction.

This is from RedState columnist and former contributor Bill Shipley, who represented several dozen January 6 defendants and who is not given to hyperbole: “I'm just now getting up to speed on the problems at DOC in the District. This is UNBELIEVABLE. These defendants now have a civil rights suit against DC. The pardon's were dated yesterday - 1/20. Any lawful authority to keep a defendant in custody ended at 11:59 pm. Beyond that it was an "unlawful seizure" in violation of the 4th Amendment. Defendants are housed at DOC under a contract with the U.S. Marshal's Service because there is not U.S. Govt holding facility in DC. The U.S. Marshal for the District of Columbia is a Presidential Appointee, and the USMS is part of the Justice Department. So, what is apparently happening now is the Trump DOJ has directed the USMS to go into the DOC and physically remove those J6 defendants still being held. If I was giving the instructions, I would have DOC officials removed in handcuffs and taken across the river to EDVA to be held pending a investigation into Sec. 242 violations. As Sen. Lee posted yesterday -- maybe it is time for Congress to revisit "Home Rule" in DC.”

🚨 Live on the scene outside of the Washington DC correction facility where the January 6. Prisoners are still being held even after Donald Trump issued a pardon for them. -- The last of the J6 prisoners held in the DC jail were released late last night, but the fact they were released cannot remove the fact that they were the victims of a criminal conspiracy to keep them in custody when they should have been freed. Nothing can give them that day of lost freedom back. While the actions in DC virtually scream of a conspiracy to drag out the punishment of men and women entitled to release, the problem seems to have been widespread within the Federal Bureau of Prisons. (…)

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PJ Media: D.C. Gulag Holds J6 Prisoners Hostage Despite Trump’s Pardons
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