Soros Backed Philly DA ‘Exploring State Charges’ Against Pardoned J6 Defendants
“Those of us who actually believe in the rule of law … in other words, those of us who are not MAGA — intend to preserve the values, traditions, laws and Constitution of the United States. And that means accountability for the co-conspirators of the 34-time felon president.”

As he promised on the campaign trail, on Day One, President Donald Trump issued pardons to more than 1,500 individuals charged with crimes related to the Jan. 6, 2021 Capitol riot.
It was a pleasure to watch scenes of the defendants reuniting with family members and finally gaining their freedom. It was a day for rejoicing.
Tuesday, on the other hand, brought some bad news for Jan. 6 defendants who live in the state of Pennsylvania. CNN’s Marshall Cohen reported that Philadelphia’s far-left District Attorney Larry Krasner is considering state charges against them. Cohen spoke with Krasner on Tuesday and asked him about potential legal hurdles, such as double jeopardy.
Krasner replied, “You can have a state prosecution for conduct that was not fully encompassed in the federal prosecution.”
Cohen reported:
Presidential pardons do not cover state offenses, but there would be significant legal hurdles for any state prosecution to move forward. During the first Trump administration, some efforts to charge allies like Paul Manafort in state court, after his federal prosecution for financial crimes that stemmed from special counsel Robert Mueller’s investigation, were rejected by judges because of the Constitution’s protections against double jeopardy.
Krasner said he is examining whether there is a legal path to file state charges against January 6 convicts who assaulted police or conspired with far-right extremist groups, like the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys. He said his office is reviewing federal charging documents to see what conduct may have been left out — and not covered by the pardons.
“To the extent the federal charging encompasses everything we’re talking about, then this argument probably fails, but I am very doubtful that it encompasses everything that we’re talking about,” Krasner told CNN. “You can have a state prosecution for conduct that was not fully encompassed in the federal prosecution.”
Sounds a little bit like Lavrentiy Beria, Joseph Stalin’s ruthless secret police chief, who famously said, “Show me the man and I’ll show you the crime.”
Then Krasner said something extraordinary: “Those of us who actually believe in the rule of law, and actually believe in the law, and actually believe in order — in other words, those of us who are not MAGA — intend to preserve the values, traditions, laws and Constitution of the United States. And that means accountability for the co-conspirators of the 34-time felon president.”
NEWS: Philadelphia DA Larry Krasner, a progressive Democrat, is exploring state charges against pardoned US Capitol rioters from PA. This would face significant legal hurdles, like double jeopardy. But he told me, "you can have a state prosecution for conduct that was not fully…
— Marshall Cohen (@MarshallCohen) January 21, 2025
Krasner is one of many Soros-backed district attorneys in the U.S. who take his money and then do his bidding. That is not to say that the progressive DA actually requires much prodding. He’s all about prosecuting patriots and going easy on actual criminals.
His soft on crime mindset has made the city of Philadelphia a far more dangerous place since he was installed in January 2018.
According to an October 2024 report from WalletHub, Philadelphia ranked 174th out of 184 U.S. cities in terms of safety.
In a Tuesday post on X, @PhillyCrimeUpd informed his followers that Krasner dropped charges against “Philly rioters from the Riots of May- June 2020, October 2020, and August 2023.”
Yet, he’s all in for prosecuting Jan. 6 defendants, many of whom have already served four years for minor transgressions.
Larry Krasner dropped charges against Philly rioters from the Riots of May- June 2020, October 2020, and August 2023
— PhillyCrimeUpdate (@PhillyCrimeUpd) January 22, 2025
I just drove through Philadelphia.
Completely 3rd world.
Tent cities. Filth. Open drug use.
People wandering like literal zombies.
This is what 75 years of single-party Democrat control for has done to America’s founding city.
“Environmentalists” run this place.
See for yourself: pic.twitter.com/8LrTApHTL6— Benny Johnson (@bennyjohnson) June 20, 2023
George Soros has spent millions of dollars on district attorney races in the U.S. for at least a decade. His efforts have contributed significantly to the rising crime rate throughout America, just as he intended.
George Soros got most radical DA’s in history elected with his $. These DA’s released pedophiles and violent offenders in record numbers. They refused to charge evil criminals.
This created a historic crime wave.
Biden is now giving him the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
There… pic.twitter.com/yOm2HPrqN8
— Robby Starbuck (@robbystarbuck) January 4, 2025
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Jurisdictional issues aside, there is new leadership at the United States Department of Justice. Krasner has now painted a target on his back. The Federal Criminal Code is immense. Not a wise move.
Soros and all his stooges should be addressed.
It’s way past time to bring the fight to Soros.
Election interference makes misdemeanors into felonies……Wonder how the International Court of Justice would feel about indicting a former Notsee?
No. We do not recognize any law other than the Constitution of the United States.
What’s the big deal? Arrest him anyway. That makes any prosecuting attorney literally a “Soros prosecutor.” And we all know that Soros prosecutors always let bad guys go.
Soros is a self admitted Nazi collaborator, he, like the others, should be deported
I think it’s Hungary that still has a standing request to have Soros extradited for war crimes.
As for this minion of his, a Trump DoJ should inform him if he doesn’t back down he himself will have to defend for abuse of office and violation of civil rights.
No, Hungary has no such request.
And tell me what federal charges you imagine could be brought against Krasner.
Milhouse, abuse of office and civil rights violation?
Specifically how? If he finds a state crime that was committed in Philadelphia county, how is it an abuse to prosecute it? The fact that he’ll only be doing it for political reasons is not a crime, just as the fact that Bragg only prosecuted Trump for political reasons is not a crime, and certainly not a federal crime.
And what civil rights violation would it be?
Milhouse:
US 18 S. 242 and/or 243 cover deprivation of rights under guise of law. It was intended as a law to rein in abuse of law enforcement and prosecutors in the South run by the KKK (in other words, Democrats) and is still valid although little used today.
Faking up some kind of state charge based on events that took place in D.C. is pretty much a definition of deprivation of rights.
Blackwing, faking a charge would certainly qualify, but there is no indication that he intends to do that. Any charge he ends up bringing (if he ever actually does so) will be an alleged crime allegedly committed in Philadelphia County. It would have to be or it would be dismissed immediately, with the risk of sanctions.
One possibility is conspiracy. If two or more people, at least one of whom was in Philadelphia at the time, had a phone conversation in which they agreed to commit a crime in DC, and at least one of them subsequently took some action in furtherance of that plot, that would be chargeable in Philadelphia. But he’d have to prove that that’s what was said in the conversation, which would be difficult to do without a recording of it.
No, he is not . It is a vile, vicious lie, and the fact that his political views have been so harmful is no excuse to repeat such a libel.
See his 60 Minutes interview.
Sometimes people have to fight fire with fire, sometimes it is necessary to to join gutter dwellers in the gutter to fix a problem.
What is important is to prevail, and hope that we do not end up perminately in the gutter.
With what has been happening to America, we must prevail.
WTPuck, I have seen the interview. I have seen the relevant section many times. He made no such admission, and those who claim he did are lying.
Most of them never saw the whole segment, or paid no attention to what they were hearing. They’re just repeating what some liar told them, and/or saw a highly edited clip. When making an accusation as serious as this, one has a clear duty to verify it first. None of those people did so, and that makes them responsible for propagating the lie.
JohnSmith, making an accusation of this nature, knowing it to be false, is not fighting fire with fire. Especially since for all his many faults he hasn’t done that.
I am OK with making false accusations facetiously, against someone who himself does that, for the purpose of highlighting that fact. These accusations, though, should be so exaggerated that any listener understands that they’re obviously false and made for rhetorical purposes only. And one must be careful not to start actually believing them.
If it’s open season at the state level, then it’s open season; and that includes all of Biden’s pardonee’s.
It always was; this was well understood in the case of the Biden pardons.
You mis-spelled “killed.”
What jumped out at me is what crimes is this guy going for? Is he now making the case that crimes committed outside of PA should also be charged in PA? Some things are such as penalties on drivers licenses but those are specifically set aside.
Keep it up, dems! At this rate, you’ll never be in power ever again.
They’re purely a revanchist cabal now with nothing to offer the nation.
I think that Dems are so toxic that the party might be confined to history.
From your lips to God’s ears. 🙏🙏
Compare the J6 pardoned people with J20 pardoned people and see who committed the more serious crimes.
Name one crime committed by a J6er that comes anywhere near the severity and immensity of the crimes committed by one Hunter Biden that includes everything he ever committed or may have committed or taken part in from January 1, 2014 through December 1, 2024.
With Jill an Joe Biden, their children never had a chance to learn to become productive citizens, born to become crooks.
Since it didn’t happen in your jurisdiction try going after you paid riots in BLM and rhe fascists. That you do have jurisdiction over.
Lawfare has no jurisdiction and does not recognize any law except its own. Doesn’t matter if this is 100% illegal – that will not stop the Communists.
Trump should be looking of a few clones of John McCarthy to bring McCarthyism back with a vengeance. When I was young I was taught that McCarthyism was wrong, later in life I found that there was a serious problem and that the was right.
I wonder, do you think this pussy’s knees ever get tired or his jaw gets sore, since he is constantly on his knees sucking Soros’ c*ck? What a pathetic pussy. Go for it pussy, go for it.
Your post might be right and we agree it’s you, but your post is trash. Clean up the language..
mark ths day. I actually agree with Paula – language and all .LAst election- he won easily. Philly -you deserve what you get from this asshole.
“To the extent the federal charging encompasses everything we’re talking about, then this argument probably fails, but I am very doubtful that it encompasses everything that we’re talking about,”
Wow, that just telegraphs “Removed to Federal court and charges dismissed with prejudice” since the prosecution is *admitting* out loud that his charges relate to Federal charges that were dismissed already. A good Federal judge should be able to squash these meritless prosecutions as fast as the prosecution dreams them up.
Good points.
That they “relate” to federal charges is not enough to remove it to federal court. And the federal charges were not dismissed. They just went away.
They were pardoned.
But he’s right in that the sentence he quotes just screams “I know that what I’m claiming to want to do is probably not going to work because of jurisdiction and double jeopardy. But I’m gonna do it anyway because I can get away with it.”
And that does mean that any charge he actually brings* will get the stink eye and probably removed. Because any non-conservative judge who isn’t all in on the game will want to pass the buck, instead of simply dismissing. But that’s the cynical side of me saying that.
(* Short of something very obviously within his jurisdiction and not within the federal charges.)
fwiw – Milhouse is correct on the multitude of his responses with respect to current law.
Separately – The majority in Gamble opined that fed’s prosectuing the same crime that the defenant was found not guilty at the state level was still prosecutable at the federal level because of the dual soveriegn doctrine. (my apologies for the slight error in actual characterization of the facts ). Gorsuch’s dissent in Gamble was absolutely correct.
The double jeopordy clause of 5A is a direct prohibition of the feds from prosecuting the same crime. Slightly different language in a state criminal statute vs a federal criminal statute does not create different / multiple crimes. It is still a single crime.
5a is also incorporated against the states via 14A. I am also of the minority opinion that all the BoRs was incorporated against the states at ratification of the 10 amendments as noted by Thomas in his footnote in mcdonald. ie the feds and the states were party to the contract (the constitution) and all parties are bound to all provisions of a contract unless otherwise stated.
therefore in my opinion, the state is barred from prosecuting the J6 guys under 5A. Unfortunately, we are stuck with the SC decision in Gamble.
“The double jeopordy clause of 5A is a direct prohibition of the feds from prosecuting the same crime.”
It’s a hard argument to make, because the founders likely never even envisioned the possibility of it happening.
In their world, there were five, count ’em, five defined federal crimes only, none of which would ever be a state offense for purely practical reasons. They didn’t live in a world where the feds could convict you of not fully tearing the tax stamp while opening your pack of cigarettes, as we do today.
It’ll still cost the victims $5000 or thereabouts to get the charges quashed. Unless Philadelphia has a grand jury and the grand jury has some backbone.
The process is the punishment.
If they want to pull this bs, the Biden pardons will reap what they’ve sown from the likes of TX and FL
Don’t forget Virginia. Solid Republican patriots in charge and I’ll bet a lot of the scoundrels Biden pardoned live there.
This should already be in process anyway. And just because federal charges cannot be brought / carry a conviction, does not mean the federal government should sit out entirely, IMO. Their considerable assistance investigating the criminal behavior of these miscreants is most welcome.
something off topic slightly….
1. will someone please looking into charging Fauci in state courts,
multiple state courts.
since he is federally pardoned.
and would it be illegal if the IRS
audited the Bidens
it seems to this not a lawyer that state charges against Fauci could be a slam dunk. After all, no Fauci, no Covid
In the late 1700s, Philadelphia was once the US capital, but was moved to Washington DC in 1790. Last looked, Washington DC is not in Pennsyvania, so WTF is this jurisdiction word salad this marxist meat puppet is yammering on about??
He can’t charge anything that happened in DC. He can only charge for conspiracies that happened in Philadelphia.
For which the state would have to prove that conspiratorial actions occurred within the state of Pennsylvania. This is most likely more lawfare intended to wear down the defendants through a lengthy investigation and more trials even if the likelihood or hope of a conviction is very small, if it even exists at all.
This BS from a guy who adopted a broad blanket policy of non-enforcement of criminal laws. At some point, federal courts (or you know who) need to step in and state that this sort of behavior is a violation of the Constitution. This isn’t individual discretion and individualized decisions. It is lawlessness.
And it’s also time to close the “dual-sovereignty” loophole in double jeopardy.
If he tries to press charges against someone who is not even in his jurisdiction at the time of a supposed crime being committed, he should be laughed at of court. Any judge that doesn’t should be disbarred
Oh, there are enough corrupt leftist judges that would allow the charges
This. 100%. The process is the punishment. While he has ZERO chance of getting a conviction (because jurisdictional issues are subject to interlocutory appeal in most states), he could still force anyone indicted into spending 10Ks in legal fees.
At that point, Pam Bondi should look into a Deprivation of Rights case or some other civil rights charge. Of course, the city of Philly would probably pay his legal fees.
At the very least, he should be fired for wasting time on this.
Fired by whom? Who has the power to fire him?
Hey gatekeeper, don’t tell him what he can’t do, tell him what he can. Shelve the Socratic method and actually be helpful. The order of the day is to f*** Krasner in every way that’s legally possible. Please use your intelligence and your acumen to explain to us all how to accomplish that. Don’t just show up and tell us everything that can’t be done and pooh pooh everyones suggestions. In other words, try not being a gatekeeper. Your refusal to do so will confirm that you’re simply here to defend Krasner.
Fuck off, liar. If something is impossible it’s impossible. If it’s illegal it’s illegal. You have no right to attack me for pointing out the truth just because you don’t like it. Just because you hate Krasner, even for very good reasons, doesn’t mean there is a way to get him, let alone a legal and ethical way. And pointing this out is not defending him, it’s defending the truth, which you evidently don’t give a shit about.
Capone was “got” on a tax charge.
Agnew was “got” on a corruption charge from an old-news office.
Larry Craig was “got” for gay solicitation.
Trump was “got” on bogus real estate and non-disclosure charges.
For heaven’s sake, Milhouse, be creative for a change.
Using absolutes to argue in the real world ignores the fact that they are essentially subjective, and therefore open to interpretation. What is illegal is therefore dependent on context, and ignoring that the tides have turned by insisting that only one version of an issue is applicable is a denial of reality. Fact is, there’s a new sheriff in town, and he’s got a much bigger posse than some sorry Soros sponsored DA.
IMO this goon is both blowing smoke b/c I don’t see how he has any State Charges to bring and incredibly tone deaf politically. The electoral faction in favor of continuing to jail the J6 folks is getting smaller every day. Take the L and live with Federal Pardon for acts committed in the Federal District aka DC.
Take away his license! And start filing charges against the J6 Unselect Committee is state courts.
DA’s have been prosecuted for over stepping their bounds.
If it works some state should go after Fauci, certainly destroying lives in any state could be hung around his neck.
I eagerly await Karma’s arrival at Krasner’s doorstep someday, with extreme prejudice.
Oh, Krasner, may you be blessed with a raging case of monkeypox.
If he pulls this crap Trump can employ the nuclear option. Grant the PA residents an additional preemptive pardon, the breadth of which will put paid to this scheme.
He can’t pardon state offenses. If Krasner can find some that were committed in Philadelphia, he has every right to charge them.
No kidding. Like you, I am not a lawyer. Unlike you, I am following, not necessarily endorsing, Krasner’s legal reasoning. He says he will not charge the defendants for the types of crimes outlined in the federal pardon. He thinks, unlike you, that otherwise double jeopardy would apply. You should read more carefully.
There is no double jeopardy in a state and the USA both prosecuting the same offense. That’s long- and firmly established law. The USA can prosecute an offense that a state has already prosecuted, and vice versa.
NY has a law specifically saying otherwise. That is the only reason NY state can’t prosecute an offense that has already been prosecuted in federal court. Without that law it could.
I don’t know whether PA has a similar law. But even if it does, it’s not in any way affected by the pardon or its scope. A pardon, state or federal, cannot affect double jeopardy, which is entirely about how many times a person has been on trial.
Are you really this mentally thick? Krasner is the one who will or will not make an attempt to prosecute. Read what he says! Nobody gives a flying F if you are correct about double jeopardy. He had given HIS reasoning and what I wrote counters his effort. Stop acting senile.
Milhouse – I agree that current case law allows the states and feds to prosecute the same crime under the dual soveriegn doctrine. See my post above. my post spells out my reasoning and in my opinion double jeoparty does apply contrary to the SC holding though we are clearly stuck with bad law. Gorsuch’s dissent is correct.
Separately – The majority in Gamble opined that fed’s prosectuing the same crime that the defenant was found not guilty at the state level was still prosecutable at the federal level because of the dual soveriegn doctrine. (my apologies for the slight error in actual characterization of the facts ). Gorsuch’s dissent in Gamble was absolutely correct.
E Howard Hunt, I did read what he said. If he wants to follow through with it he’ll have to find crimes that were committed within the boundaries of Philadelphia County. That will be tough, but at least theoretically it’s possible. The pardon doesn’t affect this either way.
Pray that God will destroy his ability to do evil.
That’s because NY state law specifically bars state prosecution after a federal prosecution. For double jeopardy purposes it treats the USA and NY as a single sovereignty. Unless PA has such a law this would not be a problem for Krasner.
But there’s a much bigger hurdle:
He can only prosecute offenses that occurred in Philadelphia County. So he can’t charge anyone for assaulting police in DC. He could charge people for conspiracy, if he can prove that at least one conspirator was in Philadelphia at the time the plans were made; but plans to do what? He’d have to prove not just that one of the conspirators later committed a crime in DC, but that they’d all agreed in advance, in a conversation taking place at least partly in Philadelphia, to commit a crime.
You are neglecting to mention the point of all this – he will bring criminal actions as punishment in and of themselves. The procedure is the punishment. He doesn’t have to prove a g0ddamn thing. All he has to do is start the legal mechanisms to tie up any of his targets for as long as he possibly can, bleeding them of time, life and money. Then if the case has no credibility and eventually a judge with actual judgment dismisses it, it will all go away and Krasner himself will not be punished for anything and will skip away to a upward or lateral positionin the Democrat machine. So while we appreciate the legal analysis pretending that what Krasner could do is somehow legitimate, it isn’t. We’ve all seen enough lawfare over the last 8 years to be able to spot it from space.
absolutely spot on–wish could upvote you a couple of thousand times
because he thinks he’s “untouchable” he will do what he damn well pleases–believe we’re fast approaching an extra-judicial phase of dealing with these pukes
corto y derecho
I don’t believe that is happening. I don’t think Soros gives his DAs any orders, nor do I think they consult him. Soros seems to be doing his political funding the right way, the way it’s supposed to be done: He finds candidates who agree with him and he backs them. When elected they don’t need directions, they do what they were always going to do. That’s how it’s supposed to work, and I have no reason to suppose that is not what Soros is doing.
They’re called “fellow travelers.” They don’t need instructions from a central authority because they understand their mission is to advance the agenda. They position themselves to do so and then go to work.
Lois Lerner was a great example of a fellow traveler. It was a fool’s errand to look for proof she had received orders from higher up (much less orders directly from Obama). She understood that her duty was to use her authority to advance the party’s agenda by way of damaging its opposition.
They don’t need to “understand their mission”. It’s a mission they set for themselves when they first decided to run for office, and it doesn’t depend on anyone else’s agenda. Those who agree with their agenda help them win, so they can implement it. That is all, and it’s exactly how our political system is supposed to work. That in this case the candidate’s agenda is destructive and dangerous doesn’t change anything.
And that seems to be all Soros has been doing. He simply finds candidates he agrees with and helps them be elected. Since they already agree with him he has no need to tell them anything. You can’t fault him for that. All we can do is oppose him, because the result of implementing his views is written in blood on our cities’ streets.
intend to preserve the values, traditions, laws and Constitution of the United States.
Wow. I really wish he had burst into flames with that lie.
And, as Milhouse says, how on earth is ANY of this even in his jurisdiction? You can’t have a law in Pennsylvania that criminalizes things that happen in Washington, D.C. It’s not your jurisdiction. Maybe conspiracy. Maybe – if any of the “rioters” that day had actually had weapons in the Capitol building – trafficking firearms. Ooh, I know! Maybe if the guy who built the pipe bombs – that the FBI has evidently never actively pursued – did that in Philadelphia….
This is what happens when you let Progressives take over the institutions in our country and drive out the Judeo-Christian basis for civilization. You get voters who will put evil men like this into office.
What he’s doing is setting up a similar legal environment akin to New York. He is going to look at local criminal OR CIVIL violations and turn into felonies if they underlie “a federal crime”. He is not going to mention that crime in either the indictment or in front of a jury and hopes that a judge will give the jury a Chinese menu choice as to what that crime is, And they do not have to be unanimous.
Sound familiar?
All it would take is a note to this guy from AG Bondi reminding him that federal statute 18 USC 241 is tailor made for government officials conspiring to deprive citizens of their civil rights. With a footnote that his statement is intended to terrorize certain US citizens in his jurisdiction — and that can be artfully prosecuted under 18 USC 2331.
following this guys lead…. here is your guy… find the crime!
it’s time to use their tactics against them.
Precisely what Krasner is doing – identified the persons and is now searching for the crimes. Or at least he’s searching for the statutes. He likely doesn’t care much if there’s any relationship between the charges and his targets’ actual acts.
Take Krasner to the wood shed.
in a more perfect world perhaps a relative of one of the J6 prisoners unlawfully held will decide to take it up with krasner personally
Why can’t Soros just be removed from the playing field, in MineCraft?
He already has a backup clone,
Married to Huma Abedin, heaven help us.
I thought there was a bipartisan consensus that “political violence bad, mmmk?”? No?
That’s what this lawfare is. Political violence.