Politico provides new review of "Where Jan. 6 prosecutions stand, 18 months after the attack"

In this post last month, I noted the AP's interesting accounting of all the federal sentences given to January 6 rioters so far.  Now, to mark the 1.5 year anniversary of the riot, Politico has this lengthy review of all where Jan 6 matters stand.  I recommend the full piece, and here is how it starts and some of its sentencing discussion:

Eighteen months since a pro-Trump mob ransacked the Capitol and disrupted the peaceful transition of presidential power, prosecutors are closing in on another milestone: 900 arrests.

According to the latest Justice Department figures, more than 855 members of that crowd are facing charges that range from trespassing on restricted grounds to seditious conspiracy.  Prosecutors estimate that more than 2,000 people actually entered the Capitol unlawfully that day, which means hundreds more arrests are likely in the months to come.

For a year and a half, the justice system has been slowly grinding through those cases, which have taken on increasing complexity as the House Jan. 6 select committee reveals new details about then-President Donald Trump’s own role in fomenting the events of that day.

So far, 325 defendants have pleaded guilty to crimes stemming from the breach of the Capitol, the vast majority to misdemeanor crimes.  But the most crucial tests of the Justice Department’s work are still to come....

About 200 defendants have seen their cases all the way through from arrest to sentencing, with the vast majority pleading guilty to misdemeanor crimes.  As a result, sentences have skewed toward probation and home confinement, rather than significant terms of incarceration.  That’s likely to change as some of those facing more serious charges go to trial or plead guilty themselves.

In the growing number of felony plea deals and jury convictions, defendants have received months and even years of jail time.  But sentences have varied widely, in part because of the 22 different U.S. District Court judges handling the Jan. 6 cases.  The harshest sentence so far has gone to Robert Palmer, who received a 63-month jail term after pleading guilty to multiple assaults on police officers guarding the Capitol’s lower West Terrace tunnel.

Some of many prior related posts:

• "Many Capitol rioters unlikely to serve jail time" because some facing only misdemeanor convictions
• Noting the importance of charging policies and practices (and consistency?) as federal rioting charges get resolved from coast-to-coast
• Federal judges expressing some concern about lenient plea deals for some Capitol riot defendants
• Notable accounting of federal prosecutions and sentences responding to riots both before and during January 6
• Recent Jan 6 rioter sentencings showcase different judges with different sentencing perspectives
• Accounting for the first 50 sentences imposed on January 6 rioters 
• Reviewing federal criminal prosecutions of January 6 rioters one year later
• January 6 riot prosecutions continuing to spotlight realities of federal criminal justice case processing
• Fascinating new AP accounting of all sentences given to January 6 rioters so far