A federal judge on Monday rescinded an order keeping members of a group from entering Washington, D.C., without a court’s permission following President Donald Trump’s commutation of their sentences.

The federal judge who oversaw the trial in which four members of the Oath Keepers were convicted of seditious conspiracy has lifted the order barring the group’s founder and several other members from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s permission after Trump issued pardons for the members commuting their sentences related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021.

“It is not for this court to divine why President Trump commuted Defendants’ sentences, or to assess whether it was sensible to do so … The court’s sole task is to determine the act’s effect,” wrote U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in the ruling, which denied the Justice Department’s request to dismiss the terms of the defendants’ supervised release while acknowledging that these terms will no longer be enforced.

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