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1 HOUSE RESOLUTION
2 WHEREAS, President Donald Trump's first day in office
3 included no effort to address the cost of groceries, to create
4 economic security for working families, or to expand access to
5 healthcare but was instead focused on issuing blanket pardons
6 for his supporters who were tried and convicted for their role
7 in his January 6, 2021 insurrection; and
8 WHEREAS, On January 6, 2021, a mob of President Trump
9 loyalists, summoned and ginned up by President Trump himself,
10 stormed the United States Capitol Building, attempting to stop
11 the peaceful transfer of power; and
12 WHEREAS, These violent Trump extremists injured 140 law
13 enforcement officers, attacking police with bats, poles, mace,
14 and stolen police shields and batons; four officers died as a
15 result; and
16 WHEREAS, More than 1,100 criminals were convicted for
17 their actions that day, with 1,030 admitting their own guilt;
18 and
19 WHEREAS, Immediately after swearing to uphold the
20 Constitution, President Trump gave his "full, complete, and
21 unconditional pardon" to 1,500 individuals who attacked the
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1 Constitution and the Rule of Law; and
2 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man convicted of
3 repeatedly assaulting police officers with pepper spray; and
4 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man convicted of
5 assaulting police officers with two cans of bear spray; and
6 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man convicted of using
7 a police riot shield to "crush" a Washington D.C. police
8 officer; and
9 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man convicted of using
10 a stun gun and "plunging it" multiple times into an officer's
11 neck; and
12 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man convicted of
13 choking an officer to the ground; and
14 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man convicted of
15 entering the United States Senate chamber equipped with zip
16 ties prosecutors said were to be used as makeshift hand cuffs;
17 and
18 WHEREAS, President Trump freed members of the Proud Boys
19 and Oath Keepers who were convicted of seditious conspiracy;
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1 and
2 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned a man who wrote on
3 social media that his actions assaulting officers on January 6
4 were "the opening of a war"; and
5 WHEREAS, President Trump pardoned criminals with prior
6 convictions for rape, sexual abuse of a minor, domestic
7 violence, manslaughter, production of child sexual abuse
8 material, and drug trafficking; and
9 WHEREAS, While President Trump describes these violent
10 criminals as "patriots", they are anything but; therefore, be
11 it
12 RESOLVED, BY THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES OF THE ONE
13 HUNDRED FOURTH GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF ILLINOIS, that
14 we condemn President Donald Trump's inexcusable pardons of his
15 coconspirators and criminals convicted of attacking police
16 officers, attacking our Capitol, and attacking our democracy;
17 and be it further
18 RESOLVED, That as President Trump continues to grow his
19 big lie about the 2020 election, the January 6, 2021
20 insurrection, and his role in fomenting it, we affirm
21 historical facts that no presidential pardons can rewrite:
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