Beth Reinhard

Immediately, some of them began filing motions to get financial penalties that they had paid as part of their sentence to get that money back.

And then others are filing lawsuits in which they're seeking millions of dollars.

Judges have said, yes, these defendants should get their money back.

So two different judges have agreed with those claims.

And then as far as we know, there are five others who have been denied that money back.

And those people are appealing those decisions.

The defendants who are arguing that they're entitled to these refunds are pointing to a 2017 case, so not that long ago, in which a Colorado woman who was initially convicted of sexually abusing her children was later acquitted.

She had paid $700, and because the case had been dismissed, she did get her $700 back.

And that was an opinion written by Ruth Bader Ginsburg.

So you have these January 6th defendants relying or leaning on a ruling that this liberal icon wrote before her death.

Taxpayers are going to be more and more on the hook for paying for what happened on January 6th.

And the folks who wrecked the Capitol, who broke the windows, who broke the doors, increasingly their burden is decreasing.