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Reagan-appointed judge stresses lasting impact of Jan. 6 while sentencing rioter banking on Trump pardon

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Judge Royce Lamberth says the public discourse about the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol has been distorted.

He says "truth and justice, law and order" are bedrock principles of the judicial system.

Lamberthy: "Nobody has been prosecuted for protected First Amendment activity. Nobody is being held hostage" He says he has "nothing to say" about whether some rioters should be pardoned.

As of Nov. 6 , approximately 1,561 defendants have been federally charged with crimes associated with the Jan. 6 attack, according to the Department of Justice . More than 1,100 have been convicted and more than 600 had been sentenced to periods of incarceration ranging from a few days behind bars to 22 years in federal prison for a Proud Boys leader convicted of seditious conspiracy. That leader, Enrique Tarrio , testified this week elsewhere in the courthouse during the trial of a former police officer charged with unlawfully providing Tarrio with information in the days before the attack..

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73

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69

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informal

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English

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55

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