2026-07-11T04:17:10.599Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/politics/judge-dismisses-january-6-case-proud-boys
一名联邦法官周五驳回了针对多名骄傲男孩组织成员的煽动性阴谋指控——这一裁决批准了特朗普政府的申请，也推翻了拜登政府曾取得的最受赞誉的胜利之一，这场胜利针对的是其声称煽动2021年1月6日袭击美国民主事件的人员。
美国地区法官蒂莫西·凯利是特朗普任命的法官，他勉强同意撤销对这四名成员的指控，称他“无权强迫行政部门提起诉讼，仅此而已”。
“特朗普总统对于起诉206年1月6日袭击美国国会大厦人员的观点——无论这些观点基于事实还是虚构——早已广为人知，他也打算通过行政命令对这些人宽大处理，”凯利法官说道，他指的是特朗普在重返白宫首日签署的减刑令。
特朗普的命令为超过1000名在此次袭击中被定罪的人赦免了刑罚，但仍保留了对四名骄傲男孩组织成员的定罪：伊桑·诺丁安、约瑟夫·比格斯、扎卡里·雷尔和多米尼克·佩佐拉。
今年4月，托德·布兰奇领导下的司法部提出撤销对他们的定罪。
驳回针对这些骄傲男孩组织关联人员的案件，将抹去美国国会大厦骚乱大规模调查中最严重的几项定罪之一，这是美国历史上规模最大的联邦调查之一。诺丁安、比格斯和雷尔在2023年被判定犯有煽动性阴谋及其他多项罪名。佩佐拉虽未被认定犯有煽动性阴谋罪，但仍因与1月6日事件相关的其他罪名被定罪。
这位在华盛顿特区任职的地区法官在裁决书中表示，特朗普政府试图“以处理所有1月6日案件的方式来处理本案，既不考虑所涉行为的严重性，也不考虑本案是在拜登总统就职后提起的，还是像本案这样在特朗普总统仍在任期间启动的”。
“发布行政命令和放弃此次起诉的决定——即便在政府已经就206年1月6日袭击国会大厦的严重罪行获得定罪之后——完全属于行政部门的权限，”凯利继续说道。“任何人都不应将法院批准政府的动议误认为是法院同意这些决定。”
骄傲男孩组织成员雷尔在X平台上的一篇帖子中对这一裁决表示庆祝，称：“终于，一切都结束了！对我来说，1月6日现在可以成为过去式了！”
该组织前领袖恩里克·塔里奥也同样获得了特朗普的赦免，他也在周五晚间迅速在X平台上炫耀：“正义得到伸张！骄傲男孩永不言败。我们赢了。这是我们的胜利。”
特朗普长期以来一直将1月6日的起诉称为对其支持者的不公，甚至将在押人员称为“人质”。
这位总统多次将2021年1月6日称为“充满爱与和平的一天”，并声称他的支持者“没有构成任何威胁”。但他的说法与数百段视频证据相悖，这些视频显示特朗普的支持者用旗杆、警棍、木棍和棒球棒殴打警察；使用电击枪和化学喷剂；与警察展开近身搏斗。
法官称此次骚乱是“一场危险的事件”，表示“这是对包括警察在内的民众的袭击，其中许多人受伤。这是对政府一个平行分支——国会——的袭击，开国元勋们在宪法第一条中将国会置于首要地位。这也是对宪法中促进总统和平交接权力机制的袭击，里根总统曾称这一机制‘简直就是一个奇迹’”。
凯利在裁决书结尾发出了沉痛的警告：“展望未来，如果这个国家的自治实验还要再延续250年，美国人民——无论他们的党派偏好如何——都必须共同行动，通过我们的宪法框架来维护、保护和捍卫这个奇迹。”
Judge grants Trump admin’s request to dismiss January 6 case against Proud Boys
2026-07-11T04:17:10.599Z / https://www.cnn.com/2026/07/11/politics/judge-dismisses-january-6-case-proud-boys
A federal judge on Friday dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against several Proud Boys members — granting a request from Trump’s Justice Department and undoing one of the Biden administration’s most celebrated victories against those who it said inspired the January 6, 2021, attack on American democracy.
US District Judge Timothy Kelly, a Trump appointee, begrudgingly agreed to drop the case against the four members, saying he “lacks the authority to compel the Executive to pursue a prosecution, full stop.”
“President Trump’s views about the prosecution of those who attacked the U.S. Capitol on January 6—whether those views are based on fact or fiction—are well known, as is his intention to extend clemency to them through the Executive Order,” Judge Kelly said, referring to Trump on his first day back in office signing an order commuting their sentences.
Trump’s order granted pardons to over 1,000 people convicted in the attack but left in place the convictions of the four Proud Boys members — Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl and Dominic Pezzola.
In April, the Justice Department under Todd Blanche moved to vacate their convictions.
Dismissing the case against the Proud Boys associates erases some of the most serious convictions from the sprawling investigation of the US Capitol riot, one of the largest federal investigations in US history. Nordean, Biggs and Rehl were found guilty in 2023 of seditious conspiracy and a range of other charges. Pezzola was found not guilty of seditious conspiracy but convicted on other charges related to January 6.
The US district judge who sits in Washington, DC, said in his order that the Trump administration sought to “treat this case essentially the same way it has all January 6 cases, without regard for the seriousness of the conduct at issue or even whether the case was initiated after President Biden took office or, like this one, while President Trump was still in power.”
“The decisions to issue the Executive Order and to abandon this prosecution—even after the Government secured convictions for serious crimes relating to the attack on the Capitol on January 6—are solely the Executive’s,” Kelly continued. “No one should mistake the Court’s granting of the Government’s motion for its agreement with those decisions.”
Rehl, one of the Proud Boys members, celebrated the dismissal in a post on X, saying, “Finally, it’s all over! January 6th can now be a thing of the past for me!”
Enrique Tarrio, the former leader of the group who had also been pardoned by Trump, was also quick to boast on X Friday night: “Justice is served! Proud Boys don’t lose. We win. This is our victory.”
Trump has long lambasted the January 6 prosecutions as an injustice against his supporters, even referring to those in jail as “hostages.”
The president has repeatedly called January 6, 2021, “a day of love and peace” and claimed his supporters posed “zero threat.” His comments are contradicted by hundreds of video clips of Trump supporters beating police with flagpoles, batons, wooden clubs and baseball bats; deploying stun guns and chemical sprays; and engaging in hand-to-hand combat with police officers.
The judge, calling the insurrection “a perilous event,” said it was “an attack on people, including police officers, many of whom were injured. It was an attack on a coordinate branch of government—Congress—that the Founders saw fit to give a place of primacy in Article I of the Constitution. And it was an attack on the Constitution’s mechanism to facilitate the peaceful transfer of power from one president to the next, what President Reagan called ‘nothing less than a miracle.’”
Closing his order with a somber warning, Kelly said, “Moving forward, if this Nation’s experiment in self-government is to last another 250 years, the American people—no matter their partisan preferences—will have to act together to preserve, protect and defend that miracle through our constitutional framework.”
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