‘Allowing insurrectionists to attend an inauguration’: Jan. 6 rioter’s invitation to attend Trump swearing-in sparks frustration as he pleads for a ‘second chance’

Russell Taylor

According to prosecutors, photographs showed Russell Taylor’s “open defiance” of officers and a tactical vest, knife and gloves, scarf and backpack that he wore at the Capitol on Jan. 6.

A Jan. 6 rioter who pleaded guilty and is on probation for storming the U.S. Capitol with a knife, bear spray, hatchet and other weapons has asked for permission to go back there next month for Donald Trump‘s inauguration — enlisting the help of his Mormon lawmaker “friends” in Utah, per his lawyer, who have asked a federal judge to grant him permission to travel.

“He is the guest of a former congressman, and has demonstrated over and over again that he is trustworthy in his travel and compliance with court orders,” wrote defendant Russell Taylor‘s attorney, Dyke E. Huish, in a Wednesday court motion asking U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth — a Ronald Reagan appointee — to let Taylor travel from California to Washington with his wife and children for the Jan. 20 inauguration. He’s currently on probation after being given a six-month sentence for obstruction of an official proceeding, a charge that the Supreme Court ruled in June was wrongly applied to Jan. 6 defendants.

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