Lawfare Archive: Former Deputy Chief of the Justice Department's Capitol Siege Section Alexis Loeb on President Trump's Pardons
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🗓️ 23 May 2026
⏱️ 41 minutes
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From January 23, 2025: Alexis Loeb, the former Deputy Chief of the Capitol Siege Section of the Department of Justice, sits down with Lawfare Senior Editor Roger Parloff to talk about President Trump's blanket pardons and commutations for everyone her unit prosecuted.
She discusses how she became involved with the cases; how they were handled by prosecutors, judges, and juries; a couple of cases she personally prosecuted; and her views on the impact of Trump's pardon proclamation.
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| 1:58.9 | I'm Marissa Wong in Turnout Lawfare. With an episode from the Lawfare Archive for May 23, |
| 2:04.7 | 2006. On May 20th, two officers who defended the Capitol on January 6th filed a lawsuit against |
| 2:12.1 | the Trump administration to block its creation of the almost $1.8 billion anti-weaponization fund, which the officers say |
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