Todd Blanche went out of his way to pardon the Trump supporters who plotted the overthrow of the government

...that's what the Sedition convictions against the Jan. 6 riot planners entailed.

They were found guilty of plotting and organizing the attempted overthrow of the president-elect, and Todd Blanche didn't just make that happen by carrying out Trump's mass pardon of participants in that riot; many of whom assaulted police officers and vandalized the Capitol.

That blanket pardon didn't erase those convictions. While it forgave the offenses and restores lost civil rights—such as the right to vote or own firearms—the fact of the conviction and the pardon both permanently remain on their formal record. To legally remove, seal, or expunge a conviction from a record, you normally must pursue a separate judicial expungement process through the courts, which a pardon alone does not accomplish.

Acting Attorney General Todd Blanche’s Department of Justice sucessfully moved to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of multiple Proud Boys, as well as Oath Keepers leaders involved in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack whose potentially vacated convictions are still before a judge.

The DOJ requested that courts dismiss these indictments with prejudice, meaning that the cases are permanently closed, and prosecutors are legally barred from refiling the same charges against them.

...former federal prosecutor Mike Gordon w/Nicolle today: