Supreme Court Ruling Reduces Sentence for Jan. 6 Protestor

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s narrowing of obstruction charges used against scores of protestors in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest, certain individuals involved are seeing their sentenced reduced.

Guy Reffitt was resentenced Friday to nearly seven years in prison after seven months were taken off of the sentence handed down by a judge in 2022 after he was found guilty of all five counts lodged against him. 

Reffitt was the first protestor to be sentenced for his role in the protest, which quickly got out of control following alleged instigating by FBI informants.

The decision not to call in the National Guard by then-House Speaker Nancy Pelosi also contributed to the protest spiraling out of control and leading to violent clashes between angry protestors and police.

Reffitt is just one of dozens of protestors who were wrongfully charged by politically motivated prosecutors eager to punish Trump supporters. Unfortunately for Reffitt, he was also convicted of having a firearm in a restricted area, meaning he still has years left to spend in prison.

Leftist Prosecutors Crushed

Over 300 conservative protestors were wrongfully charged with obstruction of an official proceeding before the Supreme Court intervened with a 6-3 decision that negated those charges, which in turn led to reduced sentences.

It was apparent from the beginning that the obstruction charges were completely baseless, and yet that didn't stop politically motivated prosecutors from taking out their vengeance on Trump supporters who dared protest the outcome of the 2020 election.

The demonstration at the Capitol took place after a year filled with violent BLM riots that burned down cities and caused billions in damages in the wake of the death of George Floyd during a police encounter.

While BLM protestors ran wild and unhindered, even conservative protestors at the Capitol on Jan. 6 who were not violent were targeted and faced the full force of the law from President Joe Biden's leftist DOJ.

The Supreme Court's decision to cut back on obstruction charges will certainly help those protestors unjustly prosecuted, but there is a lot of work to do to get justice for those conservatives who have been targeted for almost four years now.

Trump Pardons

Many J6 protestors are eagerly looking forward to Trump's inauguration next month, as he is expected to issue pardons to virtually all protestors who are not convicted of violent crimes.

Those who carry violent convictions may have an outside shot at a pardon, but their cases would likely be reviewed on a case-by-case basis. In Reffitt's scenario, he never even entered the Capitol building and committed no violent acts, meaning he has a good shot at being pardoned.

These pardons are a long time coming and are just the beginning of restoring justice to those conservative protestors who were targeted for their political beliefs.

Many protestors have endured serious civil rights violations, and the prisons in which they were held have essentially been political concentration camps.

Trump will also be heavily invested in investigating the leftist prosecutors and judges who so callously treated the J6 protestors. Until those judges and prosecutors are held accountable, the crimes against conservative protestors will never be fully erased.