Judge lands bruising blow on Trump in plot to 'rewrite history'
By David Edwards
Published July 17, 2026 8:00 PM ET
A federal judge struck down President Donald Trump's ongoing effort to "rewrite the history" of the Jan. 6 riot, using a court ruling to cement the facts of the Capitol attack.
U.S. District Judge Christopher Cooper — the Obama-appointed judge who originally sentenced Jennifer "Jenna" Ryan for her role in the riot — issued the ruling Thursday in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, denying Ryan's bid to erase her conviction from the record.
Ryan, a Dallas-area real estate agent, was sentenced in 2021 to 60 days in prison after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor for parading inside the Capitol, according to CBS News. Trump pardoned her on Jan. 20, 2025, as part of a blanket clemency covering roughly 1,500 January 6 defendants, local outlets reported.
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"There is no doubt that Ryan paraded in the Capitol without permission on January 6," Cooper observed, adding that the consequences of participating in the riot "will not be scrubbed from public memory, even if her conviction is vacated."
"Her involvement in the events of January 6 is clear," Cooper said in the ruling's conclusion, before turning to the pardon itself.
"The validity of her prosecution and sentencing is unassailable. Fortunately for her, there are some who wish to rewrite the history of that day, and that desire resulted in her pardon," the judge said, making her case without directly naming the president.
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