Rep. Jamie Raskin filed a legal brief with the appeals court on April 17 opposing the Trump administration's effort to erase the seditious conspiracy convictions of Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders who were convicted of attacking the Capitol on January 6. This represents a rare scenario where the Justice Department and the defendants' own attorneys are aligned in seeking to vacate convictions, with Raskin positioned as the only major voice arguing to preserve the jury verdicts. The practical stakes matter: vacating convictions would eliminate felony collateral consequences like firearms prohibitions, effectively giving these defendants a clean legal slate despite their release from prison.