The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking the newly pardoned as “poor losers” and memorializing the “blood,

Justice Juan M. Merchan, an even-keeled jurist, has been in the president-elect’s cross-hairs for nearly two years.

On the last day of federal court before Donald Trump takes office, the judge who presided over the president-elect’s now-dismissed criminal January 6, 2021, case told a defendant who admitted to disorderly conduct that day that he may be the last US Capitol rioter she’ll sentence.

Crowl, 54, was convicted in July 2023 of conspiracy to obstruct an official proceeding and aiding and abetting civil disorder for his role during the insurrection in Washington, D.C., on Jan. 6 that delayed certification of the Electoral College count confirming then-former-Vice-President Joe Biden's victory in the 2020 presidential election for several hours.

A federal judge barred the founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group and several associates convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from entering Washington — or the US Capitol building — without his permission first.