Three federal judges in Washington DC reluctantly dropped the cases of several Jan. 6 rioters who were among the 1,500 protesters President Trump pardoned.

Federal judges in the D.C. district court have remained essentially silent while signing off on the hundreds of now-dismissed cases that for years crowded their dockets.

In the days since President Donald Trump’s sweeping pardons of over 1,500 defendants from the Jan. 6 riot, several federal judges have issued blistering rebukes, painting his clemency orders as an affront to justice.