Washington – The US Senate Republican blocked a resolution on Tuesday, in which pardoning for supporters of President Donald Trump, who had violently attacked and injured the police officers on January 6, 2021.
The democratic Senator Patty Murray requested unanimous approval for the resolution On the floor, but was hit by the majority of whip John Barrasso with the resistance.
Unanimous approval is a common route that take senators for basic resolutions, military nominations and other measures, but the adoption can be blocked by only one senator.
Hours after his inauguration on January 20, Trump changed the prison terms on January 6, 14 of the most earnest criminals, including the leaders of the paramilitary groups, the Swiss Swiss Record and proud boys. At the same time, he granted the rest of the approximately 1,560 accused a “complete, complete and unconditional forgiveness”.
Murray, who represents Washington State, said Trump’s decision to forgive the violent defendants is “a really unthinkable attempt to extinguish the facts of that day.”
“It is a betrayal of the law enforcement agencies that protected us all on this day and a dangerous confirmation of political violence and told criminals that police officers can be beaten within an inch of their lives as long as it is in service to Donald Trump,” said Murray ” , said Murray “.
All 47 democratic and independent senators jointly sponsored the 19-word-related resolution, which “disapproved of pardon for people who were found guilty for attacks by Capitol police officers”.
Biden also pardoned
Barrasso, a Wyoming Republican, blocked the measure. He argued that “Democrats do not want a serious debate about the use of the President’s pardon” because the former President Joe Biden had granted Thousands of forgives and commutations before leaving his office.
“If they wanted a serious conversation, they would talk about 8,000 of them about Joe Bidens forgives,” said Barrasso. “The former President used his last days of office to grant grace 37 out of 40 of the worst murderers in the death cell.”
Set bidges record For most pardons and commutations that grant thousands of thousands of grace non -violent Drug offenders. The former president, whose resistance to the death penalty is well documented, converted The death sentences for 37 federal inmates, which instead serve in prison terms instead. He left three inmates in the death cell.
Bids granted shortly before leaving the White House Preventive breeding To all members who were sitting in the Congress Committee to examine the attack on January 6, as well as the four police officers who testified before the committee.
He pardoned Dr. Anthony Fauci and General Mark Milley, both were the goal of Trump’s threats to retaliate and threats to the public.
Biden was criticized in early December Excuse his sonHunter, who was convicted of the federal government’s weapon accusations and is guilty of tax injuries. In his last moments of office, Biden granted five members of his family preventive pardon.
Attacks on the police
According to the Ministry of Justice, over 140 police officers from the US Capitol and the Metropolitan police officers in Washington were injured that day.
Several other democratic senators spoke on the ground on the ground about certain attacks on law enforcement and the four officers died by suicide In the days after the attack.
“How does that last with the fuse of the blue? I don’t understand, ”said Senator Mark Kelly from Arizona.
States newsroom approach Almost two dozen republican senators the day after Trump published the pardon for a statement on grace for the violent criminals.
Almost all of them refused with only a few exceptions, rejected to criticize bidens, or said they had not read Trump’s 334-word command of freeing the defendants from their punishments.
608 were accused of all defendants to be attacked, resisted or disabled law enforcement authorities, including 174 accused of using a deadly or risky weapon or causing earnest bodily harm to an officer. Almost a third said guilty of having attacked the law enforcement authorities, and 69 owed to do this with an obvious or improvised weapon, including pieces of furniture that destroyed the rioters in the capitol and their own riot shields from the police officers.
Last updated at 6:24 p.m., January 28, 2025
