When most Republican senators voted to acquit Donald Trump over his role in inciting the storming of the U.S. Capitol January 6, 2021, a common message was that the federal government should nevertheless focus on prosecuting those who had participated in the riot. But as Trump looks poised to pardon a large number of January 6 convicts and defendants, most of those same Republican senators are greeting those impending pardons with a shrug.
John McCormack is a senior editor at The Dispatch and is based in Washington, D.C. Prior to joining the company in 2023, he was Washington correspondent at National Review and a senior writer at The Weekly Standard. When John is not reporting on politics and policy, he is probably enjoying life with his wife and daughters in northern Virginia or having fun visiting family in Wisconsin.
