Jan. 6 plaque is faulty and thus should not be hung, DOJ argues in effort to make case go away
Source: Law & Crime
Dec 10th, 2025, 12:27 pm
The plaque created to honor the law enforcement officers who protected the Capitol and the representatives inside it on Jan. 6 is defective, the Trump administration contends, and the lawsuit filed to force it to be hung should be thrown out.
U.S. Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn and Metropolitan Police officer Daniel Hodges cannot prove they have been harmed due to the memorial not being hung, and even if they could, its installation would not resolve any of their injuries, the Department of Justice (DOJ) argued in a 12-page motion to dismiss filed Tuesday.
In March 2022, Congress enacted legislation to create a plaque to honor the officers "who valiantly protected the United States Capitol, Members of Congress, and staff on January 6, 2021," as the filing recounts. The marker was to be provided to the Architect of the Capitol and then "place[d]" at a "permanent location on the western front of the United States Capitol."
However, now more than three years on, it has been created — but not yet hung. Dunn and Hodges filed their lawsuit in June, seeking to compel its installation and arguing they have suffered harms "compounded by the government's refusal to recognize their service," including death threats.
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Link to MOTION (PDF viewer) - https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/26366810-jan-6-plaque/
Link to MOTION (PDF) - https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/26366810/jan-6-plaque.pdf
Just petty shit.
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Honoring the Capitol Police, DC Police, and National Guard who defended the Capitol.
