Mr. President, you are no stranger to prosecutions warped by partisan vendetta,” the Connecticut lawyer wrote. My client “also has been victimized by a cynical misuse of the law.”

Some of the Donald Trump supporters who stormed the U.S. Capitol nearly four years ago are celebrating the president-elect's electoral victory and called for mass pardons of Jan. 6 rioters on social media.

Hughes' lawyer argued that there is a "significant likelihood" his client could receive a pardon from Trump once he becomes president.