The U.S. Department of Justice has placed two federal prosecutors on leave after they filed a court brief describing the January 6, 2021, Capitol crowd as “a mob of rioters” and linking former President Donald Trump to the 2023 doxxing of former President Barack Obama’s address. Assistant U.S. Attorneys Carlos Valdivia and Samuel White were suspended shortly after submitting the 14-page sentencing memorandum in the case of Taylor Taranto, a pardoned Jan. 6 participant later arrested for possessing firearms near Obama’s Washington, D.C., home.
According to CBS News, the memo stated that “thousands of people comprising a mob of rioters” participated in Jan. 6 and referenced Trump’s June 2023 post sharing Obama’s alleged address online. The document was approved by U.S. Attorney for the District of Columbia Jeanine Pirro, who has publicly aligned with Trump’s characterization of Jan. 6 as largely peaceful.
It remains unclear whether Valdivia and White were given reasons for their suspensions. They were locked out of government devices hours after filing the brief, Politico reported. The prosecutors had urged a sentence exceeding two years for Taranto, who awaits sentencing later this week for firearms and threat-related convictions.
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