A federal judge on July 10 granted the Justice Department’s (DOJ) motion to dismiss the convictions of four Proud Boys members over their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, U.S. Capitol breach. In a seven-page memorandum, U.S. District Judge Timothy Kelly said he would throw out the case against Ethan Nordean, Joseph Biggs, Zachary Rehl, and Dominic Pezzola, finding that the court had no grounds to deny the government’s motion to dismiss it with prejudice. “There is little mystery about why the government is moving to dismiss this case, or whether dismissal is in fact what the executive seeks,” the judge wrote....