With the stroke of a pen on Monday, President Donald Trump completely upended the Justice Department’s four-year effort to arrest, prosecute and punish the people who attacked the US Capitol on January 6,

In the leadup to his second administration, Trump was cagey about how far he would go with clemency for some of the more than 1,580 individuals charged with various crimes connected to Jan. 6. Approximately 1,100 defendants have been sentenced so far, and arrests are ongoing.