Millions of Americans agree that the prior Biden-Harris administration went too far in overzealously investigating, arresting, and prosecuting individuals involved in the Jan. 6 Capitol protest-turned-riot of 2021, and President Donald Trump ran in part on a promise to address and correct that injustice.

On Friday, the acting leadership of the Justice Department ordered the firing of all prosecutors in the Washington D.C. U.S. Attorney's Office who'd been involved in prosecuting Jan. 6 cases, CBS News reported.

Separate but relatedly, the DOJ also ordered immediate employment reviews for all FBI agents nationwide who'd been assigned to Jan. 6-related investigations.

Cleaning house at the DOJ and FBI

In a Friday memo, Acting D.C. U.S. Attorney Edward Martin, under orders from Acting Attorney General James McHenry, directed the firing of all federal prosecutors in the office who'd been involved with Jan. 6 cases, including several who were named in an attached appendix, as well as temporary employees who'd been brought in to help and whose employment was ostensibly made permanent in a last-minute move by the prior administration.

The continued employment of those individuals "hindered the ability" of the U.S. Attorney for D.C. to "faithfully implement the agenda that the American people elected President Trump to execute," per the memo, and, "The appropriate step is to terminate these employees, and to take all appropriate steps to ensure that resources allocated to their hiring and employment" are available for other things.

Meanwhile, Acting Deputy Attorney General Emil Bove directed Acting FBI Director Brian Driscoll in a memo to create a list of all current and former FBI agents who'd been assigned to Jan. 6 cases "at any time" and in any location, and further ordered reviews "to determine whether any additional personnel actions are necessary."

Additionally, Driscoll ordered the firing of at least eight senior FBI executives at the bureau's D.C. headquarters, as well as multiple "executive assistant directors" and the heads of several FBI field offices, including D.C., Las Vegas, and Miami.

All of those senior career FBI agents and executives were given the option to resign, retire, or be fired by Monday if they declined to comply with the directive.

Ending the weaponization of government

These employment terminations can be directly traced back to a Day One executive order on "Ending the Weaponization of the Federal Government," which called out the Biden-Harris administration for having engaged in "a systematic campaign against its perceived political opponents, weaponizing the legal force of numerous Federal law enforcement agencies and the Intelligence Community against those perceived political opponents in the form of investigations, prosecutions, civil enforcement actions, and other related actions."

Those actions were more about "inflicting political pain" than "pursuing actual justice or legitimate governmental objectives," and many were "inconsistent with the Constitution and/or the laws of the United States" in that they grossly violated protected civil rights.

The order further accused the Biden-Harris administration of having "engaged in an unprecedented, third-world weaponization of prosecutorial power to upend the democratic process," including the targeting of individuals exercising their First Amendment-protected rights, and explicitly called out how the Biden-Harris DOJ "ruthlessly prosecuted more than 1,500 individuals associated with January 6" while at the same time it "dropped nearly all cases against BLM rioters."

Given all of that and more, Trump declared that "It is the policy of the United States to identify and take appropriate action to correct past misconduct by the Federal Government related to the weaponization of law enforcement and the weaponization of the Intelligence Community."

Jan. 6 pardons and commutations

Relatedly, and on the same day, President Trump also granted pardons and commutations to all of the more than 1,500 individuals who'd been prosecuted and convicted in relation to Jan. 6, ordered all who were currently incarcerated to be immediately released, and ordered the DOJ to swiftly pursue "dismissal with prejudice," meaning the charges can't be brought again, of all pending indictments related to Jan. 6.

Trump said in the Jan. 6 clemency order, "This proclamation ends a grave national injustice that has been perpetrated upon the American people over the last four years and begins a process of national reconciliation."