President Trump’s sweeping pardons of more than 1,500 people charged with crimes related to the Capitol riot of Jan. 6, 2021, including individuals who assaulted police officers, stunned

Here’s what Republican senators told ABC News after President Donald Trump issued pardons for Jan. 6 violent offenders.

President Trump’s decision to pardon hundreds of protesters who stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021 — including many accused of assaulting police officers — is dividing House Republicans, with some lawmakers touting the day-one decree and others criticizing it as ill-advised.

Pressed on Trump's Jan. 6 pardons, many Republicans said they want to move on. But as Faulkner wrote, “The past is never dead. It’s not even past.”

Republicans in the Wisconsin congressional delegation expressed reservations about pardons for those who assaulted officers on Jan. 6, 2021.

A Proud Boys leader from Millersville who beat police officers at the U.S. Capitol in 2021 was among the hundreds of Jan. 6 defendants pardoned by President Donald Trump earlier this month,

Senator Lindsey Graham, a longtime ally of Donald Trump, criticized on Sunday the president's pardon of about 1,500 of his supporters who attacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, saying it could lead to more violence.

While the Fraternal Order of Police says it is discouraged by pardons and commutations issued by Biden and Trump, it didn't rescind its endorsement.

Congressional Democrats have promised to hold Republicans accountable for President Trump pardoning more than 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants on the day he was sworn into office.