As President, he would have the legal authority to pardon any or all of those charged, at whatever stage their cases are.”

On the last day of federal court before Donald Trump takes office, the judge who presided over the president-elect’s now-dismissed criminal January 6, 2021, case told a defendant who admitted to disorderly conduct that day that he may be the last US Capitol rioter she’ll sentence.

It all depends on how Trump decides to follow through on his repeated promises to help people involved in riots at the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. One of the men, Timothy Desjardins, is only accused of violent offenses at this point;