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The Only Thing Left to Do About January 6 Is Remember

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The January 6 prosecutions came to a quiet, unheralded end this week after a federal judge dismissed the final seditious conspiracy case against various Oath Keeper defendants, including the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes. Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw numerous January 6–related cases, penned a fitting afterword to the saga. “This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6,” he wrote in an opinion granting dismissal of the remaining cases. “That book is now closed. 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. The court cannot write a different ending.” Everything the judge wrote was true. But that was not enough for at least one of the defendants. Edward Vallejo filed a motion on Tuesda

First report: US judge grants DOJ bid to dismiss Jan. 6 cases against Oath Keepers — straitstimes.com, 7d