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Pamela Anne Hemphill

January 6 defendant

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Pamela Anne Hemphill is a grandmother from Boise, Idaho, and one of the only people in the entire January 6 record who looked the federal government in the eye and said no thank you when it offered to erase her case. The internet called her the MAGA Granny. She earned a different name after. Pamela Hemphill went into the Capitol on January 6, 2021. She pleaded guilty to one misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. She served her time. [FACT] Then came January 20, 2025, and the clemency proclamation that covered the January 6 prosecutions. [FACT] Pamela Hemphill refused hers. [FACT] She did not do it quietly either. She worked through the office of her own Republican United States Senator from Idaho to get the Justice Department to put her refusal in writing. The Pardon Attorney office wrote back and said her non-acceptance is noted. [FACT, CBS News] Her words, not ours: "I broke the law that day, period, black and white." [THEIR ACCOUNT] And: "The pardons just contribute to their narrative, which is all lies, propaganda." [THEIR ACCOUNT] You do not have to agree with Pamela Hemphill about one single thing to respect what that took. She is the rarest kind of witness there is. She testified against her own interest. In a record full of people fighting to be believed, a 71-year-old woman from Boise gave up the one thing everybody else wanted, because she did not think it was hers to take. That is a spine. Put it on the record. THE RECORD Case 21-cr-555, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia. Arrested August 3, 2021. Pleaded guilty January 21, 2022. Sentenced May 24, 2022 to 60 days in jail, 36 months of probation, and $500 restitution. [FACT] Clemency offered January 20, 2025 and formally declined. [FACT] This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.