The Daily Fuckup

Donald Trump’s Jan. 6 clemency action is not a dead issue. The Justice Department’s clemency tracker shows that on January 20, 2025, Trump issued a proclamation granting pardons and commutations for offenses tied to the Capitol attack, and the official record reflects that the move covered roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with January 6. That decision set off immediate legal and political fallout, and it is still being cited as a defining act of Trump’s second term. ([justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present))

The continuing argument is visible in the congressional record. On January 6, 2026, lawmakers used floor speeches to denounce the pardons, calling them a reward for violence against police and a bid to rewrite what happened at the Capitol. Those remarks did not mark a new clemency action; they showed that the original proclamation is still being treated on Capitol Hill as an active political fault line. ([govinfo.gov](https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/CREC-2026-01-06/pdf/CREC-2026-01-06.pdf))

The practical fallout has also stayed alive in the official tally. The Justice Department’s clemency page is still tracking recipients, and the congressional speeches reference later arrests, charges, and other criminal cases involving some pardoned defendants. That does not change the date of the underlying order: the relevant act was Trump’s January 20, 2025 proclamation, not a new January 1, 2026 development. What changed on the later date was the record of how often the pardon decision is still being brought back into public view. ([justice.gov](https://www.justice.gov/pardon/clemency-grants-president-donald-j-trump-2025-present))