A day after President Trump issued pardons or sentence commutations for all January 6 defendants (Promise Kept: With the Stroke of a Pen, President Trump Issues Mass Pardons for J6 Defendants – RedState), a large number of them remained confined in the DC jail.
A few inmates had been released from the D.C. jail in Southeast by midday Tuesday, as a crowd of frustrated supporters awaited additional releases. Officials repeatedly said more inmates would be released soon.
Republican Rep. Andy Biggs, Rep. Lauren Boebert and Rep. Chip Roy were outside the jail.
“Let our people go!” supporters chanted for hours as they watched the front door.
The authority to hold these prisoners expired at midnight on Monday. The Fourteenth Amendment clearly states that the government can’t “deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.” Instead, they were subject to unlawful detention that is nearly indistinguishable from kidnapping or abduction.
This is from RedState columnist and former contributor Bill Shipley, who represented several dozen January 6 defendants and who is not given to hyperbole:
The wardens should be arrested for false imprisonment. This shit has gone far enough.
What about Biden’s pardon of the REAL criminals??? Like his own family.
Suck it. There is a new sheriff in town!
Tough shit liberals. Trump is president and you’re gonna like it !!
It’s trump time