2026年3月6日 / 美国东部时间下午2:14 / CBS新闻
弗吉尼亚州立法机构通过了一项法案，禁止学校教授其认为关于2021年1月6日美国国会大厦骚乱的虚假信息，包括将其描述为”和平抗议”。
大会周四批准了这项措施，这是首个旨在打击特朗普总统支持者虚假陈述的同类立法。
该法案规定，学校教学必须”不将对2021年1月6日叛乱事件中发生或涉及的行为的描述、刻画或呈现为可信的和平抗议”。
学校也不得”陈述、暗示或呈现为可信的关于存在大规模选举舞弊可能改变或实际改变2020年总统选举结果的说法或暗示”。
相反，该法案称，学校教学必须”将2021年1月6日美国国会大厦的叛乱描述为一场旨在推翻2020年总统选举结果、对美国民主制度、基础设施和代表进行的前所未有的暴力袭击”。
这项立法由来自弗吉尼亚州北部的民主党州代表丹·赫尔默（Dan Helmer）发起。在州参议院，该法案以21-19的投票结果通过——该议会中19名共和党人反对这项措施。哥伦比亚广播公司新闻（CBS News）已请求弗吉尼亚州参议院共和党领袖置评。
2021年1月6日，弗吉尼亚州的州和地方警察是帮助击退暴徒的执法人员之一。
“白宫试图改写历史，”赫尔默告诉CBS新闻，”我不希望我们的公立学校成为传播虚假信息的地方。”
2026年1月6日，白宫在官方联邦政府网页上发布了一系列关于1月6日的谎言，包括虚假声称警方对袭击负有责任。
赫尔默的法案预计将由弗吉尼亚州州长阿比盖尔·斯潘伯格（Abigail Spanberger）签署，她是一名民主党人，于去年11月当选，并在国会大厦袭击事件发生时担任国会议员。
斯潘伯格的发言人表示：”州长将审查所有提交给她办公桌的法案。”
赫尔默在州议会大厦通过电话接受CBS新闻采访时表示：”这项法案并不强制教授1月6日的相关内容。它只是规定，如果学校教授这一内容，必须符合当天的实际事实。”
特朗普总统及其代理人和支持者将1月6日的事件描述为爱国行为。他们还声称，对美国国会大厦骚乱者的起诉代表了拜登政府对司法部的政治”武器化”。
特朗普赦免了1500多名国会骚乱被告，包括数百名在袭击中被控殴打和伤害警察的人。
赫尔默告诉CBS新闻：”该法案为我们的学校提供了指导原则。”
“我们在弗吉尼亚州有过这样的历史：在学校里美化美国内战的’失落事业’和邦联，试图以这种方式改写历史，”赫尔默说，”我们有很长一段时期在历史叙述上走了错误的道路。”
前国会警察官员哈里·邓恩（Harry Dunn）表示：”赫尔默代表提出的要求学校课程中的教育内容必须基于事实、真实和诚实的法案是显而易见的。”邓恩现在正在争取马里兰州美国众议院席位的民主党提名，他告诉CBS新闻：”这项法案并非政治左派的主张。任何暗示相反的法案反对者，才是将其’政治化’的人。全世界都看到了那天发生的事情以及谁该负责。”
纽约州议会也在考虑新的立法，要求正确教授国会大厦围攻事件。长岛民主党州代表查克·拉文（Chuck Lavine）提出立法，要求所有公立学校学生接受关于叛乱的教育。
“我们的想法是要求纽约学生了解1月6日发生的事情及其后果，”拉文告诉CBS新闻，”我们不能把历史扫地出门。如果我们不向学生传授历史真相，就是在严重损害他们，也损害我们的国家。”
他的立法必须在12月前通过才能成为法律。
“这是公民责任的一部分，”拉文说，”人们有权持有自己的政治信仰，但无权改变事实。”
“任何真诚看待那天发生的事情的人都能认识到当天事件对民主构成的威胁，”拉文表示，”老话说，’忽视历史的人注定要重蹈覆辙’。”
曾处理1月6日案件的前司法部检察官布伦丹·巴卢（Brendan Ballou）告诉CBS新闻：”1月6日的真相绝不能被遗忘，当天的历史绝不能被改写。”
同样处理了多起1月6日案件的前检察官迈克·戈登（Mike Gordon）表示：”弗吉尼亚州能够抵制对1月6日和2020年选举的无休止的歪曲，这值得称赞。孩子们应该了解真相。”
Virginia passes legislation prohibiting schools from teaching falsehoods about Jan. 6 riot
March 6, 2026 / 2:14 PM EST / CBS News
Virginia’s legislature has passed a bill prohibiting schools from teaching what it considers to be falsehoods about the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol riot, including portraying it “as peaceful protest.”
The General Assembly approved the measure Thursday, as a first-of-its-kind legislation to combat false statements by supporters of President Trump.
The bill says that school instruction must “Not describe, portray, or present as credible a description or portrayal of the actions precipitating or involved in the events of the January 6, 2021, insurrection as peaceful protest.”
Schools may also not “state, suggest, or present as credible a statement or suggestion that there was extensive election fraud that could have changed or actually changed the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
Instead, the measure says that school instruction must “Describe the January 6, 2021, insurrection at the United States Capitol as an unprecedented, violent attack on United States democratic institutions, infrastructure, and representatives for the purpose of overturning the results of the 2020 presidential election.”
The legislation was sponsored by state delegate Dan Helmer, a Democrat from Northern Virginia. In the state Senate, the bill passed 21-19 — the chamber’s 19 Republicans opposed the measure. CBS News has requested comment from Virginia state Senate GOP leader.
State and local police in Virginia were among the law enforcement responders who helped repel the rioting mob on Jan. 6, 2021.
“The White House has tried to rewrite history,” Helmer told CBS News. “I don’t want to celebrate traders in our public schools.”
The White House posted a series of lies about Jan. 6 on an official federal government web page on Jan. 6, 2026, including a bogus claim that police bore responsibility for the attack.
Helmer’s bill is expected to be signed by Virginia Gov. Abigail Spanberger, a Democrat who was elected in November and who served in Congress at the time of the Capitol attack.
A spokesperson for Spanberger said, “The Governor will review all legislation that comes to her desk.”
Helmer, who spoke by phone with CBS News from the State Capitol, said, “This bill does not mandate the teaching of Jan. 6. It just says that if you do it, you have to do so in line with the actual facts of the day.”
President Trump and his surrogates and supporters have characterized the events of Jan. 6 as patriotic. They’ve also claimed the prosecutions of U.S. Capitol rioters represented a political “weaponization” of the Justice Department by the Biden administration.
Mr. Trump pardoned more than 1,500 Capitol riot defendants, including hundreds charged with beating and maiming police officers during the assault.
Helmer told CBS News, “The bill provides guardrails for our schools.”
“We have a history in Virginia, of celebrating the ‘lost cause of the Civil War’ and the Confederacy in our schools, trying to rewrite history that way,” Helmer said. “We have a long history of some of that going the wrong way.”
“Delegate Helmer’s bill requiring any education in school curriculum be fact-based, truthful and honest is a no-brainer,” said Harry Dunn, a former Capitol Police officer who responded to stop the mob on Jan. 6. Dunn, who is now running for the Democratic nomination for a U.S. House seat in Maryland, told CBS News, “This bill isn’t politically left. Any opponents of the bill who suggest otherwise are the ones who are making it ‘political.’ The world saw that happened that day and who was responsible for it,” said Dunn.
New York’s legislature is also considering new legislation to require proper teaching of the Capitol siege. Long Island Democratic state Rep. Chuck Lavine has proposed legislation in New York to require all public schoolchildren to receive instruction about the insurrection.
“The idea is to require New York students to be instructed about what happened on Jan. 6 and its aftermath,” Lavine told CBS News. “We can’t sweep history under the rug. If we don’t teach our students about the truth of history, we are doing them a grave disservice. And we’d be doing a disservice to our nation as well.”
His legislation must be passed by December in order to become law.
“This is part of civic responsibility,” Lavine said. “People are entitled to their own political beliefs, but they are not entitled to change facts.”
“Anyone of good faith who watched what happened on that day recognizes the threat to democracy represented by what occurred on that day,” Lavine said. “The old line is, ‘Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat its mistake.’”
Brendan Ballou, a former Justice Department prosecutor who handled Jan. 6 cases, told CBS News, “It’s absolutely essential that the reality of Jan. 6 not be forgotten and the history of the day not be rewritten.”
“Kudos to Virginia for pushing back on the relentless gaslighting about January 6th and the 2020 election,” said former prosecutor Mike Gordon, who also handled a number of Jan. 6 prosecutions. “Kids should learn the truth.”
