U.S. Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly rebuked President Donald Trump 's blanket pardons for those convicted of crimes during the January 6, 2021, riot at the U.S. Capitol in a new court filing. Newsweek reached out to the White House via email and Judge Kollar-Kotelly via the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia for comment.

While dismissing cases, judges who have overseen the prosecutions made clear that the orders did nothing to change the reality of the attack on the Capitol.

President Donald Trump’s pardons for participants in the Jan. 6 riot at the US Capitol “will not change the truth of what happened” that day, a Washington federal judge wrote in an early response from the judiciary to the sweeping order.

Federal prosecutors have asked federal judges in Washington to dismiss pending indictments against defendants charged as a result of conduct on Jan. 6, 2021.

Federal judges in the D.C. district court have remained essentially silent while signing off on the hundreds of now-dismissed cases that for years crowded their dockets.

A federal judge who has overseen scores of criminal cases related to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol condemned President Donald Trump'ssweeping pardons on Wednesday, saying they reflect a "revisionist myth" about the riot.

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.

The federal judges in Washington, DC, who handled hundreds of cases from January 6, 2021, are pushing back against President Donald Trump’s mass clemency for convicted rioters, rebuking

Rhodes had been convicted in one of the most serious cases prosecuted by the DOJ stemming from the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.

Federal Judge Tanya Chutkan, who was also handling Trump’s coup attempt case, said the pardons would not change “the historical record.”

A federal judge this week had choice words after Donald Trump's sweeping pardon freeing all the rioters charged for the events on Jan. 6 at the U.S. Capitol. The post ‘Cannot whitewash the blood’: Trump Jan.

The far-right Oath Keepers extremist group founder serving 18 years for the Capitol riot visited Capitol Hill after President Trump freed him.