As President Donald Trump this week sought to rewrite the history of his supporters’ attack on the US Capitol, a database detailing the vast array of criminal charges and successful convictions of January 6 rioters was removed from the Department of Justice’s website.

The acting U.S. attorney said he wants to "get to the bottom" of why an obstruction charge was used against some of the Capitol riot defendants Trump pardoned.

One of President Donald Trump’s first orders of business following his inauguration this week was to pardon those jailed in relation to convictions stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the United States Capitol.

Corey Amundson, the U.S. Justice Department's senior career official in charge of overseeing public corruption and other politically sensitive investigations, resigned on Monday after the Trump administration tried to reassign him to a new role working on immigration issues,

President Trump’s pardons in the Jan. 6 case abruptly ended the most complex investigation in U.S. history. It also raised questions about what he will do next against a department he has said is full of his enemies.

Andrew Zabavsky and Terence Sutton Jr. were pardoned by President Donald Trump. The Washington, D.C., police officers were convicted in the 2020 death of a man during a police chase.

Trump’s installed top prosecutor in the District of Columbia is investigating the use of an obstruction charge in Jan. 6 cases. The president had faced that charge, too.

Walt Nauta, an aide to President Trump, and Carlos de Oliveira, former property manager at Mar-a-Lago, were charged alongside the president in 2023. They all pleaded not guilty.

Top Democrats on House and Senate appropriations committees wrote to OMB's acting head questioning the legality of the freeze.

The U.S. Attorney's Office in D.C. began filing motions to dismiss pending Capitol riot cases late Monday following President Donald Trump's executive order.

Assistant U.S. Attorney Leah Belaire Foley has been appointed as the U.S. Attorney for the District of Massachusetts by Acting Attorney General James McHenry, the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) announced on Tuesday.

The DOJ asked a federal court to dismiss its case against two men indicted for allegedly helping Trump conceal classified documents. Prosecutors dropped Trump from the case after his election win.