Source: Idaho Statesman
“On his first day in office after four years away from the White House, President Donald Trump granted clemency to more than 1,500 people charged with crimes in the violent Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol building staged by his supporters. But one rioter, 71-year-old Boise resident Pamela Hemphill, once nicknamed ‘the MAGA Granny,’ rejected her pardon. ‘Accepting the pardon would be an insult to the Capitol Police officers, to the rule of law, to our nation,’ Hemphill told the Idaho Statesman by phone Tuesday. ‘The J6 criminals are trying to rewrite history by saying that it was not a riot; it wasn’t an insurrection. I don’t want to be a part of their trying to rewrite what happened that day.’ … The U.S. Supreme Court ruled in 1833, then later upheld that ruling in 1915, that a recipient has the power to turn down a presidential pardon.” (01/22/25)
https://www.idahostatesman.com/news/local/crime/article298937855.html