DOJ signals plan to appeal Proud Boys leaders' sentences in Jan. 6 cases

• A spokesperson for the Justice Department said in a statement Tuesday that DOJ was "preserving our right to appeal" the sentences with the procedural filings.

Zoom in: Tarrio's 22-year sentence was the longest handed down in a Jan. 6 case, but was significantly shorter than the 33 years that prosecutors had sought.

• Prosecutors had also asked for significantly longer sentences for the other three leaders of the right-wing extremist group.

State of play: Nayib Hassan, an attorney for Tarrio, called the government's appeal "ludicrous" in a statement to Axios, adding that the defense team looks forward to reviewing "whatever the government intends to file as a basis for their appeal."

• "We are tediously working on the grounds for Tarrio's appeal and believe we will prevail on multiple grounds," Hassan added.

• Attorney Norm Pattis, who represents Biggs and Rehl, told AP that the government's appeals were "ridiculous."
• Nordean's attorney, Nicholas Smith, told AP that Nordean was "encouraged by the government's agreement that errors led to the judgment and sentence in his case."

Editor's note: This story and headline have been corrected to reflect that the DOJ signaled a plan to appeal Proud Boys' sentences in Jan. 6 cases, not that it had done so.