1. United States
2. Va.
3. Letter

I write to you today as a United States Army veteran, a constituent, and an American who has spent the last year documenting constitutional violations by this administration in correspondence to your office. Yesterday’s action by the Department of Justice — filing to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders and dismiss all charges with prejudice — demands an immediate, unambiguous response from the Senate. These were not questionable prosecutions. These were jury verdicts. Citizens of the District of Columbia, having heard the evidence, convicted these individuals of seditious conspiracy under 18 U.S.C. § 2384 — of organizing a coordinated, violent effort to prevent the lawful certification of a presidential election. The DOJ’s characterization of those convictions as “Biden-era weaponized prosecutions” is not a legal argument. It is a political declaration that this administration views the rule of law as a tool of factional loyalty rather than a constitutional obligation. The dismissal with prejudice is especially alarming. This is not prosecutorial discretion — it is the permanent foreclosure of accountability. It ensures that no future administration can revisit these charges regardless of what evidence may emerge. It also restores to these individuals the right to possess firearms, a direct and practical consequence that law enforcement has already flagged publicly. I am asking you directly: What is the Senate’s response? The Judiciary Committee has oversight authority over the Department of Justice. The Senate has the power to compel testimony, demand documentation of the decision-making chain, and put on public record whether this administration believes seditious conspiracy is a crime or a protected political act. Silence is a position. I ask you not to take it.