Several participants in the Jan. 6 Riots who had their convictions scrubbed by President Donald Trump are now arguing their pardons ought to cover a slew of other legal proceedings brought against them over the past few years. Take Edward Kelly, who assaulted several police officers outside the U.S. Capitol, and is now trying to persuade the courts that Trump’s order ought to also absolve him of his conviction for plotting to murder the FBI agents who pursued his case. Other defendants are apparently pushing for similar rulings, on charges stemming from illegal possession of a firearm to child pornography uncovered in the course of post-riot investigations. It comes after Texas prosecutors announced a manhunt for Capitol rioter Andrew Taake, who’s wanted on charges of soliciting a minor online back in 2016, and with many federal agents unnerved by a group of would-be-insurrectionists banding together last month to publish an online list of some 124 officials involved in their various cases.
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