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Justice Department puts 2 prosecutors on leave after they signed court docs that described "mob of rioters" on Jan. 6

The Justice Department placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they filed court papers calling the Jan. 6 Capitol siege a "riot" perpetrated by a "mob," three sources told CBS News. Read More

DOJ puts 2 federal prosecutors on leave after they described 'mob of rioters' on Jan. 6

The language was used in a sentencing memo for Taylor Taranto, a Jan. 6 defendant who was separately convicted of weapons charges after he showed up near Barack Obama’s home in 2023. Read More

Trump’s push to rewrite the history of January 6 takes an especially brazen turn

Shortly after the January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol, the political right spent a lot of time parsing whether the word “insurrection” was an apt description of the day’s events. Read More

Justice Department strips Jan. 6 references from court paper and punishes prosecutors who filed it

The Justice Department has stripped references to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack from court papers and punished two federal prosecutors who filed the document seeking prison time at sentencing Thursday ... Read More

‘Orwellian’: Current and former prosecutors alarmed after DOJ scrubs mentions of Trump and January 6 from court records

The Justice Department’s decision to sideline two US attorneys and remove mentions of Donald Trump and the US Capitol attack from court papers before the sentencing of a pardoned January 6 rioter is ... Read More

US prosecutors suspended after calling January 6 defendants 'mob of rioters,' sources say

The U.S. Justice Department placed two prosecutors on leave, hours after they referred to Trump supporters who stormed the Capitol on January 6, 2021, as "a mob of rioters" in a sentencing memo, said ... Read More

Jan. 6 hearings: What we’ve learned, and what’s next

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. WASHINGTON (AP) — Through seven hearings ... Read More

Trump is pushing a bizarre January 6 conspiracy again - but there’s one big problem

It goes without saying that January 6, the day supporters of Donald Trump engaged in a violent insurrection at the US Capitol, is a pretty bad stain on the Republican’s first stint as president, but ... Read More

Bondi rips Democratic senators, dodges questions on 'weaponization' and Homan during fiery hearing

The hearing follows a tumultuous summer for the Department of Justice. President Donald Trump's tightening grip over the Justice Department to target his political opponents and lawmakers' increasing ... Read More