A pardoned Oath Keeper is demanding more after having his conviction lifted, lashing out in a new court filing against the judge's "reluctant" dismissal and accusing him of "unconstitutional" conduct. After Trump issued a blanket pardon to all January 6 defendants at the start of his second term, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta relented to federal pressure and agreed to lift the seditious conspiracy charges against Vallego and the other Oath Keeper defendants. “The government does not say that the charges were legally deficient or that the evidence presented is insufficient to sustain Defendants’ convictions,” Mehta wrote. "Ed Vallejo was innocent before trial and he is innocent now," the filing read. The Court’s commentary adopted wholesale the government’s theory of the case while ignoring the substantial defense case for innocence."