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.

Their leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes had his sentence commuted by Trump after being convicted by a jury of plotting a conspiracy to stop the transfer of power on Jan. 6.