Welcome to the January issue of The Highlight
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Trump’s January 6 victory lap
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Trump Fires Prosecutors Who Forgot January 6 Was Actually A Peaceful Picnic
The Trump administration is forcing out two prosecutors who filed sentencing recommendations against two pardoned January 6 insurrectionists for crimes ...
US Marshals’ efforts around Trump’s January 6 pardons were “highly unusual”
At right, supporters of pardoned January 6 defendants await their release outside DC’s Central Detention Facility on January 20, 2025.Mother ...
Bove and Pirro won’t condemn January 6—and GOP senators no longer care
Trump nominees Emil Bove, left, and Jeanine Pirro.Mother Jones illustration; Brian Cahn/Zuma; Bill Clark/CQ Roll Call/Zuma Get your news from ...
Trump’s Bureau of Land Management nominee bails out over January 6 condemnation
Kathleen Sgamma, president of Western Energy Alliance, at a Senate hearing. Michael Brochstein/ZUMA Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free ...
Top prosecutor spoke at event attended by January 6 seditionists who are appealing their convictions
Ed Martin speaks at a 2023 hearing.Amanda Andrade-Rhoades/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and ...
Now January 6 Apologist Ed Martin Says He Wants to “Defend the Police.”
Ed Martin speaks outside the Republican National Committee headquarters on Nov. 5, 2020.Alex Brandon/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the ...
“Incredibly damaging”: the fallout from Trump’s January 6 pardons
Protesters attack police at the US Capitol building during January 6th 2021.Kent Nishimura / Los Angeles Times/Getty Fight disinformation: Sign ...
Trump frees violent January 6 attackers
President Donald Trump signs executive orders on Jan. 20, 2025. Matt Rourke/AP Fight disinformation: Sign up for the free Mother ...
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