The resolution condemning the pardons comes after Trump pardoned over 1,500 Jan 6 insurrectionists – including those convicted of violently assaulting police officers

The Senators will seek unanimous consent to pass the resolution this week

Senator Reverend Warnock: “Pardoning violent criminals who carried out this unabashed and unembarrassed assault on our democracy is not only an immense injustice but blatant disrespect to the courageous law enforcement officers who protected our Capitol and fought to preserve our republic that day”

Senator Ossoff: “I condemn in the strongest terms President Trump’s disgraceful pardon of more than 1,000 criminals, many of them violent, who overran the U.S. Capitol, desecrated the seat of our democracy, and assaulted law enforcement in their failed attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power”

Washington, D.C. — Today, U.S. Senators Reverend Raphael Warnock (D-GA), Jon Ossoff (D-GA), and 45 colleagues introduced a new resolution condemning the pardons of individuals who were found guilty of assaulting U.S. Capitol Police Officers. 

The resolution follows President Trump’s decision to, on the first day of his second term, grant full, complete, and unconditional pardons to over 1,500 people charged with committing crimes in the January 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol, and to commute the sentences of 14 others, including leaders of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers, far-right militias. Among those pardoned by Trump were 169 people who pled guilty to assaulting police officers on January 6th. During the siege of the Capitol that day, over 80 U.S. Capitol Police Officers were assaulted, as well as over 60 officers from the Washington, D.C. Metropolitan Police Department.

“Pardoning violent criminals who carried out this unabashed and unembarrassed assault on our democracy is not only an immense injustice but blatant disrespect to the courageous law enforcement officers who protected our Capitol and fought to preserve our republic that day,” said Senator Reverend Warnock. “These pardons create a permission structure to excuse political violence and further endanger our law enforcement.”

“I condemn in the strongest terms President Trump’s disgraceful pardon of more than 1,000 criminals, many of them violent, who overran the U.S. Capitol, desecrated the seat of our democracy, and assaulted law enforcement in their failed attempt to prevent the peaceful transfer of power,” Senator Ossoff said.

The senators’ resolution, Condemning the pardons for individuals who were found guilty of assaulting Capitol Police Officers, simply states: “Resolved, That the Senate disapproves of any pardons for individuals who were found guilty of assaulting Capitol Police officers.” The Senators will seek unanimous consent on the Senate floor this week to pass the resolution.

According to the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia, approximately 1,572 defendants have been federally charged with crimes associated with the attack of the U.S. Capitol on January 6th. This includes approximately 598 charged with assaulting, resisting, or impeding law enforcement agents or officers or obstructing those officers during a civil disorder, including approximately 171 defendants charged with using a deadly or dangerous weapon or causing serious bodily injury to an officer.

In addition to Senators Warnock and Ossoff, the resolution was authored by Democratic Leader Chuck Schumer (D-NY), Senators Patty Murray (D-WA), Chris Murphy (D-CT), and Andy Kim (D-NJ), and cosponsored by Senators Angela Alsobrooks (D-MD), Tammy Baldwin (D-WI), Michael Bennet (D-CO), Richard Blumenthal (D-CT), Lisa Blunt Rochester (D-DE), Cory Booker (D-NJ), Maria Cantwell (D-WA), Chris Coons (D-DE), Catherine Cortez Masto (D-NV), Tammy Duckworth (D-IL), Dick Durbin (D-IL), John Fetterman (D-PA), Ruben Gallego (D-AZ), Kirsten Gillibrand (D-NY), Maggie Hassan (D-NH), Martin Heinrich (D-NM), John Hickenlooper (D-CO), Mazie Hirono (D-HI), Tim Kaine (D-VA), Mark Kelly (D-AZ), Angus King (I-ME), Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), Ben Ray Luján (D-NM), Ed Markey (D-MA), Jeff Merkley (D-OR), Alex Padilla (D-CA), Gary Peters (D-MI), Jack Reed (D-RI), Jacky Rosen (D-NV), Bernie Sanders (I-VT), Brian Schatz (D-HI), Adam Schiff (D-CA), Jeanne Shaheen (D-NH), Elissa Slotkin (D-MI), Tina Smith (D-MN), Chris Van Hollen (D-MD), Mark Warner (D-VA), Elizabeth Warren (D-MA), Peter Welch (D-VT), Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI), and Ron Wyden (D-OR). In total 47 senators signed the resolution.

The resolution can be viewed HERE.

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