On January 6, 2021, thousands of Trump supporters breached the U.S. Capitol during congressional certification of the 2020 election results, resulting in extensive FBI criminal prosecutions, a House select committee investigation, presidential pardons granted on January 20, 2025 to nearly 1,600 defendants, and subsequent legal and political upheaval including post-pardon arrests, DOJ erasure and restoration of prosecution records, conviction vacatur motions, contested pardon scope, a $5 million Ashli Babbitt family settlement, and a $1.8 billion Anti-Weaponization Fund to compensate alleged victims of federal "weaponization."
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