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2021年1月6日，美国华盛顿，骄傲男孩组织成员在占领美国国会大厦东前台阶的特朗普总统支持者中。图片…… 获取授权，打开新标签页查看更多内容
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- 裁决撤销斯图尔特· Rhodes及其他骄傲男孩组织成员的煽动性共谋罪名
- 九名被告均已根据特朗普的赦免令获释
- 法官称尽管本人强烈反对，检察官仍有权撤销案件
华盛顿8月4日路透电 — 根据一份法院文件，美国一名法官于周二批准美国司法部的请求，撤销对参与2021年1月6日国会大厦袭击事件的极右翼骄傲男孩组织成员的指控。
华盛顿联邦地区法官阿米特·梅hta作出的这项裁决，撤销了骄傲男孩组织创始人斯图尔特· Rhodes及其他组织成员的煽动性共谋罪名——他们曾因密谋阻止唐纳德·特朗普总统在2020年大选失利后权力交接而被定罪。
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所有被告均已根据特朗普大规模赦免近1600名国会骚乱指控者、并为剩余被告减刑的举措，提前从监狱获释。
曾主持2022年和2023年两起煽动性共谋案审判的梅hta在裁决中写道，他强烈反对特朗普时期司法部的这项决定，但认定检察官有权撤销案件。
“今天的后续情节淡化了当日事件的严重性，诋毁了促成这些定罪的检察官和执法人员的工作，并为那些动摇我国民主百年基石——和平交接总统权力——的犯罪行为开脱，”梅hta写道。“法院无法改写结局。”
司法部同时提出撤销极右翼骄傲男孩组织成员因参与国会大厦袭击而被判处的煽动性共谋罪名。2021年1月6日，支持特朗普的暴徒冲击国会大厦，试图阻止国会认证特朗普的败选结果，但最终失败。
周二被撤销案件的八名被告，是特朗普未完全赦免的少数1月6日骚乱被告之一，若没有司法部介入撤销案件，他们的定罪本将维持生效。
检察官辩称，鉴于特朗普在其第二任期首日下令撤销所有待审的1月6日案件，撤销指控是恰当的。特朗普曾称1月6日骚乱的被告遭到虐待，其起诉是对司法系统的滥用，但司法部在请求撤销案件时并未提出此类主张。
多名骄傲男孩组织成员已对他们的定罪提出上诉。
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US judge grants DOJ request to dismiss January 6 cases against Oath Keepers
2026-08-04 20:48:43 GMT / Reuters
Members of the Oath Keepers militia group stand among supporters of U.S. President Donald Trump occupying the east front steps of the U.S. Capitol in Washington, U.S., January 6, 2021. Picture… Purchase Licensing Rights, opens new tabRead more
- Summary
- Ruling vacates seditious conspiracy convictions of Stewart Rhodes and other Oath Keepers members
- All nine defendants were already freed under Trump clemency order
- Judge says prosecutors had authority to drop cases despite his strong disagreement
WASHINGTON, Aug 4 (Reuters) – A U.S. judge on Tuesday granted the U.S. Justice Department’s request to dismiss cases against members of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia who took part in the January 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to a court filing.
The ruling from Washington-based U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta tosses out convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other members of the group who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting to stop the transfer of power after President Donald Trump lost the 2020 election.
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All the defendants had already been freed from prison as part of Trump’s sweeping move to pardon nearly all 1,600 people charged in the attack and commute the prison sentences of the remaining defendants.
Mehta, who presided over the two seditious conspiracy trials in 2022 and 2023, wrote in his ruling that he strongly disagreed with the Trump Justice Department’s decision, but concluded prosecutors had the authority to drop the cases.
“Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power — to buckle,” Mehta wrote. “The court cannot write a different ending.”
The Justice Department also moved to vacate seditious conspiracy convictions of members of the far-right Proud Boys group for their role in the Capitol attack. Members of a pro-Trump mob stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, in a failed attempt to stop congressional certification of Trump’s defeat.
The eight defendants whose cases were dismissed on Tuesday were among the few January 6 defendants whom Trump did not fully pardon, meaning their convictions would have stood without the Justice Department’s decision to intervene.
Prosecutors argued dismissal was appropriate given Trump’s order to drop all pending January 6 cases on the first day of his second term. Trump has said that January 6 defendants were mistreated and that their prosecutions were an abuse of the legal system, though the Justice Department did not make those arguments in seeking dismissal of the case.
Several members of the Oath Keepers had appealed their convictions.
Reporting by Andrew Goudsward, Ismail Shakil and Jasper Ward; Editing by Michelle Nichols and Lisa Shumaker
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