The U.S. Justice Department has removed thousands of online records related to January 6 prosecutions, including news releases documenting guilty pleas, convictions, and sentences for those who stormed the U.S. Capitol to disrupt the transfer of power to a new president. The DOJ defended the move, calling the news items “partisan propaganda.” It contended the items were the Biden administration’s weaponization of the justice system. Critics of the DOJ deletions amount to an effort to rewrite history, noting that many of the removed records involved defendants convicted of assaulting police officers while they broke into the Capitol. Regardless of one’s view, the controversy raises questions concerning the erasure of historical government records, even when administrations disagree about their meaning.