January 6 United States Capitol attack
2021 attempt to prevent presidential electoral vote count
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| 2025 | Following President Trump's pardons, the Justice Department moved to dismiss some cases awaiting trial or sentencing. |
| 2025 | The Committee's members were nominated for the 2025 Nobel Peace Prize for their efforts in defending freedom and democracy. |
| April 3 2025 | The John F. Kennedy Library Foundation announced Mike Pence as the recipient of the JFK Profile in Courage Award for ensuring the constitutional transfer of presidential power on January 6, 2021. |
| March 13 2025 | Potential future events related to pardons or commutations for participants in the January 6 Capitol attack remain speculative as of the current date. |
| 2025 | U.S. Attorney's Office for the District of Columbia initiated an internal review of January 6 prosecutions under the Sarbanes-Oxley Act. |
| February 2025 | The Washington Post reported that candidates for top intelligence and law enforcement positions were being screened with questions about January 6 being 'an inside job' and the 2020 election being 'stolen'. |
| February 2025 | The Press Coalition discovered that all nine video exhibits in Glen Mitchell Simon's case were missing from the USAfx system. |
| February 6 2025 | The FBI provided corresponding employee names to the Department of Justice through a classified information handling system. |
| February 4 2025 | The FBI identified over 5,000 employees who worked on the Capitol riot investigations, in response to a Justice Department order. |
| January 25 2025 | CNN reports the erasure of the Capitol riot defendants list from the US Attorney's Office website. |
| January 24 2025 | The US Attorney's Office, District of Columbia's list of 'breach' cases documenting Capitol riot defendants was available until the morning, after which the page became unavailable. |
| January 22 2025 | House Majority Leader Mike Johnson announced the formation of a panel to investigate the January 6 committee. |
| January 20 2025 | U.S. President Joe Biden granted pardons covering all members of the House Select Committee investigating the January 6 riot, their staff, and the officers who testified. |
| January 20 2025 | Following the mass pardons, President Trump ordered the Department of Justice to remove previously-published press releases about the arrests and convictions of those pardoned, and video evidence of the attack began to be purged from government databases. |
| January 20 2025 | Upon his inauguration, Donald Trump pardoned all but 14 of approximately 1,270 convicted rioters, commuting the remaining 14 sentences to 'time served'. |
| January 20 2025 | In mass pardons, Enrique Tarrio was pardoned, while Biggs, Rehl, Nordean, Rhodes, and Meggs had their sentences commuted to 'time served'. |
| January 20 2025 | Trump was inaugurated for a second presidential term with JD Vance as his vice president. |
| January 20 2025 | Upon taking office, Trump granted clemency to all January 6 rioters, including members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who violently assaulted police. |
| January 14 2025 | The part of the special counsel report about election obstruction was made public. |
| January 10 2025 | Jack Smith resigned from his position three days after submitting his report. |
| January 7 2025 | The special counsel's 137-page final report was publicly released, noting use of the House Select Committee's December 2022 report in the investigation. |
| January 7 2025 | Special Counsel Smith submitted his final 137-page report to the Justice Department about the January 6 events. |
| January 6 2025 | Representative Joseph Morelle released a report containing an email from Hutchinson's lawyer denying any 'improper communications' with Liz Cheney. |
| January 6 2025 | By the fourth anniversary of the attack, the Justice Department had made 1,570 arrests and was still attempting to secure guilty pleas in approximately 300 cases. |
| January 2 2025 | Chair Bennie Thompson and Vice Chair Liz Cheney awarded the Presidential Citizens Medal by President Joe Biden for their work during difficult times |
| 2024 | U.S. Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in Fischer v. United States, finding obstruction charges in January 6 cases were overbroad and did not apply to evidence tampering. |
| December 2024 | The House Administration oversight subcommittee, led by Representative Barry Loudermilk, issued a report alleging that Liz Cheney should be criminally investigated for witness tampering regarding Cassidy Hutchinson. |
| December 17 2024 | The Loudermilk-led subcommittee released its 'Interim report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th select committee'. |
| December 17 2024 | The same subcommittee released its 'Interim report on the failures and politicization of the January 6th select committee' |
| December 8 2024 | Trump claimed in an NBC News interview that every committee member should be jailed and falsely alleged evidence deletion. |
| December 8 2024 | As president-elect, Trump announced he would pardon January 6 rioters on his first day in office, excluding those he considered 'radical, crazy'. |
| November 2024 | Donald Trump won the presidential election. |
| November 2024 | Donald Trump was elected president, having vowed to pardon the Capitol riot participants. |
| November 2024 | Following Trump's reelection to the presidency, the special counsel investigation charges were dismissed. |
| November 25 2024 | Special Counsel Jack Smith filed to dismiss charges against Trump, citing the Justice Department's internal policy not to prosecute a sitting president. |
| October 2024 | Steve Bannon was imprisoned for four months for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the committee. |
| September 12 2024 | Brothers Phillip Walker and David Walker were charged with assaulting New York Times photojournalist Erin Schaff and stealing her camera. |
| September 5 2024 | A fundraiser called the 'J6 Awards Gala' for Capitol riot participants, planned at Trump's Bedminster club, was postponed one day before the scheduled event. |
| August 2024 | More than 1,400 people had been charged with federal crimes related to the attack, with over 900 of them convicted by this time. |
| August 28 2024 | Judge Nichols set Joseph Fischer's trial to begin in February 2025, with six charges including assaulting law enforcement officers and civil disorder. |
| August 23 2024 | Justin Lee was found guilty of civil disorder and assaulting police after throwing a smoke bomb at Capitol police in a Capitol tunnel. After the riot, Lee had worked as a Maryland police officer for three months before being arrested. |
| July 2024 | Peter Navarro was imprisoned for four months for contempt of Congress after refusing to testify before the committee. |
| July 2024 | Joe Biden withdrew from the presidential race, leading to Trump's subsequent election victory. |
| July 30 2024 | An arrest warrant was issued for Tristan Sartor, who was arrested at home the next day. During the riot, he entered the Capitol building through the Senate Wing Door and was identified by his distinctive style of dress, including a gold flower lapel pin, sunglasses, and boots. |
| July 2 2024 | Department of Justice announces it will continue to prosecute the election subversion case, citing its policy of not limiting prosecutions to only sitting presidents. |
| July 1 2024 | Supreme Court issued a decision in Trump v. United States regarding presidential immunity. |
| June 28 2024 | The Supreme Court decided in Fischer v. United States that prosecutors could validly bring obstruction charges for attempting to block electoral certificates. |
| June 4 2024 | Wisconsin indicted three people, including Kenneth Chesebro. |
| April 25 2024 | Supreme Court heard oral arguments in Trump v. United States regarding presidential immunity. |
| April 23 2024 | Arizona indicted eleven fake electors and seven Trump allies, including John Eastman and Rudy Giuliani, who were previously identified by the House committee. |
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