Pardoned January 6 defendants now asking for restitution

The left is going to lose its marbles again over the latest saga of the protesters prosecuted for the January 6 Capitol breach.

Led by lawyer Mark McCloskey, the man who was prosecuted for pointing an AR-15 at protesters in his neighborhood in 2020, some January 6 defendants are asking for restitution for the time they spent in jail, unable to work or take care of their families.

The pardoned defendants want the Trump administration to compensate them, and McCloskey is trying to set up a ‘voluntary nonjudicial resolution committee’ to do just that.

According to the blueprint presented to the administration by McCloskey, the special panel would be led by U.S. prosecutor Jeanine Pirro and would evaluate each request on a case-by-case basis.

“Dollar bills”

“The only thing I can do as your lawyer…is to turn your losses into dollar bills,” McCloskey reportedly said during an online meeting with the protesters.

In essence, the mere existence of such a panel would turn the protesters from aggressors who wanted to overthrow the government into victims of that government.

It’s clear that the left’s outrage over the protesters flooding past barricades and into the Capitol on January 6, 2021 led to an overreach in how the protesters were treated.

Once arrested, many of them were held in jail for months without bail for what ordinarily would have been a misdemeanor tresspassing charge.

Sure, there were a few that caused damage or made threats, but most of them were just swept along with the crowd and didn’t do much of anything but walk around and then leave.

Precedent set

McCloskey has claimed that DOJ attorney Ed Martin is on the protesters’ side and that his work with the weaponization of the federal government aligns with their cause.

“He’s 100 percent on our side,” Mr. McCloskey said.

Over 1,500 rioters were pardoned on the first day of President Donald Trump’s new term.

They should not have been treated as harshly by the justice system, and many of them have had their lives majorly disrupted just by being there for what they thought was a peaceful demonstration.

The family of Ashli Babbitt, who was shot to death by Capitol Police during the riot, has just gotten a $5 million settlement from the Justice Department in their wrongful death suit, so there’s already precedent for the kind of compensation the other protesters are asking for.

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