{"id":3415,"date":"2025-02-01T23:01:55","date_gmt":"2025-02-01T23:01:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judges-in-jan-6-cases-and-watchdog-groups-recoil-at-justice-departments-deletion-of-records\/"},"modified":"2025-02-01T23:01:55","modified_gmt":"2025-02-01T23:01:55","slug":"judges-in-jan-6-cases-and-watchdog-groups-recoil-at-justice-departments-deletion-of-records","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/site.itshrt.com\/worldnews\/judges-in-jan-6-cases-and-watchdog-groups-recoil-at-justice-departments-deletion-of-records\/","title":{"rendered":"Judges in Jan. 6 cases and watchdog groups recoil at Justice Department&#8217;s deletion of records"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <script async src=\"https:\/\/pagead2.googlesyndication.com\/pagead\/js\/adsbygoogle.js?client=ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     crossorigin=\"anonymous\"><\/script>\r\n<!-- ItShrt World News -->\r\n<ins class=\"adsbygoogle\"\r\n     style=\"display:block\"\r\n     data-ad-client=\"ca-pub-6606220950177433\"\r\n     data-ad-slot=\"1882483372\"\r\n     data-ad-format=\"auto\"\r\n     data-full-width-responsive=\"true\"><\/ins>\r\n<script>\r\n     (adsbygoogle = window.adsbygoogle || []).push({});\r\n<\/script>\r\n<br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div id=\"\">\n<p>A decision by the acting leadership at the <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/fbi-agents-on-jan-6-capitol-riot-trump-investigations-to-be-fired-sources-say\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">U.S. Justice Department<\/a><\/span> to delete its public webpages and case summaries of the Jan. 6 siege at the Capitol prosecution has triggered a legal challenge from a watchdog group and blowback from a federal judge who <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-pardons-jan-6-district-court-judges\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">oversaw some of the cases<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p>The controversial decision has also drawn the ire of one of the rioters who pleaded guilty.<\/p>\n<p>The Justice Department had built a comprehensive database of the approximately 1,600 defendants from the U.S. Capitol attack and had produced a monthly set of reports updating the prosecution, which was the largest in the agency&#8217;s long history. Last week, the database and designated public web pages went dark, as the agency halted its prosecutions of the rioters, under orders from President Trump.<\/p>\n<p>The erasure of the public resources and information occurred during a period of transition at the agency, with confirmation votes still pending for Attorney General-nominee <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/pam-bondi-confirmation-hearing-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Pam Bondi<\/a><\/span> and FBI Director-nominee <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/live-updates\/kash-patel-confirmation-hearing-fbi-director\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Kash Patel<\/a><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.dcd.231933\/gov.uscourts.dcd.231933.176.0_1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">In an opinion issued Thursday<\/a>, U.S. District court judge Paul Friedman noted the deletion of the public information by the acting Justice Department leadership. Friedman included a recent version of the lengthy database in his public ruling, which can be accessed on the federal court system&#8217;s website.<\/p>\n<p>The list in Friedman&#8217;s order mirrors the purged Justice Department database, listing riot defendants in alphabetical order and noting their conviction and sentences.<\/p>\n<p>Friedman also blistered the proclamation by Mr. Trump that the Jan. 6 prosecutions were a &#8220;national injustice perpetrated&#8221; on the American people. Friedman wrote, &#8220;The proclamation&#8217;s assertion if factually incorrect. There has been no &#8216;grave national injustice.&#8217; And just because the proclamation was signed by the President does not transform up into down or down into up as if peering through the glass in &#8216;Alice in Wonderland.'&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Citizens for Ethics and Responsibility in Washington<\/a>, a D.C.-based government watchdog groups that frequently scrutinizes Mr. Trump, has issued a public letter seeking an investigation by the Justice Department&#8217;s Office of <span class=\"link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/news\/trump-federal-inspectors-general-fired\/\" target=\"_blank\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Inspector General<\/a><\/span> and the Archivist of the United States to determine if the deletion of the Jan. 6 public data was a violation of law.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.citizensforethics.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/Letter-to-Archivist-DOJ-IG-re-J6-Website-1.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The letter said<\/a>, &#8220;The Department of Justice&#8217;s removal of this vital information about its prosecutions arising from the January 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol is consistent with President Trump&#8217;s ongoing efforts to rewrite or erase the insurrection, and also a likely violation of federal law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>The watchdog group&#8217;s letter also read, &#8220;Despite the agency&#8217;s requirement to notify the archivist of the deletion of these records, there is no indication that they reported this matter to NARA, and a list of open &#8216;unauthorized disposition cases&#8217; on NARA&#8217;s website does not reveal any such reporting. Given DOJ&#8217;s apparent failure to report this matter to NARA as required by law, we are doing so now and request that NARA take appropriate action, including instructing the agency to issue a report in accordance with 36 C.F.R. \u00a7 1230.14 and \u00a7 1230.16.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Mr. Trump&#8217;s allies in Congress have been accused of their own efforts to erase the history of Jan. 6. House Republican leadership has defied a 2022 law requiring the hanging of a formal plaque on the US Capitol grounds to honor police heroes who saved the Capitol and Congress from the attack.<\/p>\n<p>House Speaker Mike Johnson has declined to specify if or when the plaque will ever be hung.<\/p>\n<p>Democrats also blasted Republicans for failing to acknowledge the Capitol Insurrection and its victims on the four-year mark of the attack, on Jan. 6, 2025. Republican leaders in the House and Senate did not hold a vigil or commemoration for the victims, which had previously been staged at the Capitol in prior years.<\/p>\n<p>Pam Hemphill, an Idaho woman who pleaded guilty to a misdemeanor for her role in the US Capitol breach, told CBS News that the deletion of Jan. 6 public records &#8220;is just the latest step in rewriting history for his benefit and is more proof of his utter contempt for the Rule of Law.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I would not be shocked if he goes as far as trying to ban books and articles that document the facts about the Capitol Riot,&#8221; Hemphill said.<\/p>\n<p>    <!-- data-recirc-source=\"queryly\" --><\/p>\n<aside class=\"component list recirculation component--type-recirculation \"\/><!-- tags --><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author\">\n      <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/scott-macfarlane\/\" class=\"content-author__name\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Scott MacFarlane<\/a><\/p>\n<div class=\"content-author__bio\">\n<div class=\"content-author__image\">\n            <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/team\/scott-macfarlane\/\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\"><br \/>\n              <span class=\"img \"><img alt=\"headshot-600-scott-macfarlane.jpg \" height=\"80\" width=\"80\" class=\" lazyload\" srcset=\"https:\/\/assets2.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/2547b37b-aacb-4322-8642-5a0e056a304f\/thumbnail\/80x80\/3d64bfebf6e5c49817b2a092e16191fe\/headshot-600-scott-macfarlane.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 1x, https:\/\/assets1.cbsnewsstatic.com\/hub\/i\/r\/2024\/05\/17\/2547b37b-aacb-4322-8642-5a0e056a304f\/thumbnail\/160x160\/51c5e90efa00098be23a0152835d52e7\/headshot-600-scott-macfarlane.jpg?v=a599723035d2f104d7a2d01edbe96ef8 2x\"\/><\/span><br \/>\n            <\/a>\n          <\/div>\n<div class=\"content-author__full-information\">\n<p class=\"content-author__text\">Scott MacFarlane is a congressional correspondent. 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