Eight Jan. 6 defendants whose sentences were commuted by President Trump must get court permission to travel to Washington, D.C., or enter the U.S. Capitol, a federal judge ordered on Friday. Why it matters: Trump issued pardons and commutations for the majority of rioters charged in the Jan.

Trump's blanket order came the same day that Joe Biden used the final minutes of his presidency to issue pre-emptive pardons for his brothers and sister, as well as members of the US House of Representatives committee whose investigation into the Capitol riot concluded Trump was to blame.

Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.