In January 2025, as Donald Trump prepared to retake office, the federal prosecutors handling the January 6 trials carried on with the grinding work of justice. Knowing the new president would likely undo some or all of their convictions through pardons, they were trying as much as anything else to create a court record for posterity. The record reflects that a defendant named Jared Wise was one of the last J6ers to go on trial. Wise was alleged to have followed the mob into the Capitol and was caught on body-cam footage shouting encouragement to rioters as they assaulted the...