Some Jan. 6 Rioters Are Expected to Attend Trump’s Inauguration

Among the thousands of people who will descend on Washington on Monday for President-elect Donald J. Trump’s inauguration, a handful are expected to be criminal defendants charged with joining the mob that stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, on Mr. Trump’s behalf.

At least eight rioters who have faced criminal charges have been granted permission in recent days by the judges in their cases to attend the inauguration and celebrate the swearing-in of the man they sought to keep in power after he lost the 2020 election. Most were accused of relatively minor offenses like trespassing or disorderly conduct.

Their expected presence at the inauguration comes as Mr. Trump himself has relentlessly sought to rewrite the history of Jan. 6, seeking to play down the violence that day and recast it, falsely, as “a day of love.” He has also vowed repeatedly to pardon many of those who have been charged in connection with the riot, perhaps including even defendants accused of violent crimes.

Kevin and Carol Moore, a married couple from Massapequa, N.Y., are typical of those who have been cleared by a judge to make the trip to Washington.

The two were charged in May with illegally entering the Capitol on Jan. 6. They spent about eight minutes in the building. Charging documents say that Mr. Moore, who works on buses for the Metropolitan Transportation Authority, “aggressively yelled and gestured at a law enforcement officer” while he was in the lobby.

Federal prosecutors tried to stop the Moores from attending the event, saying, as they have in response to many such requests, that allowing Jan. 6 rioters to revisit the area near the Capitol for another pro-Trump gathering would be tantamount to letting them “return to the scene of the crime.”