'Nothing quiet about it.' DOJ scrubs its website of Jan. 6 news releases - Sun, 24 May 2026 PST
This story raises questions about governance, accountability, and American values.
The coverage treats DOJ scrubbing its Jan. 6 pages as a covert plot, as if the only public interest is keeping one narrative permanently pinned to a government server. That framing assumes the department’s website is a neutral archive, not a political battleground that can be curated to signal virtue or vengeance.
New Republican Times Editorial Board
The Department of Justice acknowledged that it has removed webpages that detail charges, convictions, and other information related to the myriad defendants involved in the Jan. 6, 2021, riot at the Capitol.
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The coverage treats DOJ scrubbing its Jan. 6 pages as a covert plot, as if the only public interest is keeping one narrative permanently pinned to a government server. That framing assumes the department’s website is a neutral archive, not a political battleground that can be curated to signal virtue or vengeance.
Conservatives are right to ask two questions at once: why now, and who decides what stays. A justice system earns legitimacy through public trust, not through selective memory. If records are being moved, the department should say where they went, how they can be accessed, and whether anything was altered. That is basic institutional transparency.
Jan. 6 was serious, but so is the precedent of using DOJ comms as a running scoreboard. The principle is equal justice under law, applied consistently, with rule-of-law accountability that does not depend on politics or public relations.
Commentary written with AI assistance by the New Republican Times Editorial Board.