The Justice Department on Tuesday asked a federal appeals court to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of top Proud Boys and Oath Keepers leaders, marking a sweeping effort to erase some of the most serious criminal judgments stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol protest.

In a series of unopposed motions filed with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro‘s office requested that the court vacate the convictions and send the cases back to a lower court so the government can dismiss the indictments with prejudice.