Charges have been dropped against Steve Nikoui, a Gold Star father who was charged earlier this month for disrupting President Joe Biden’s State of the Union speech.

Nikoui is the father of Lance Cpl. Kareem Nikoui, one of the 13 U.S. service members killed during the American withdrawal from Kabul, Afghanistan, on Aug. 26, 2021. Nikoui was attending Biden’s annual State of the Union speech due to an invitation from Rep. Brian Mast (R-FL) and was arrested on charges of violating the D.C. code after continuing to yell at the president despite officers warning him to stop.

Since then, Washington, D.C., Attorney General Brian Schwalb has decided not to further prosecute Nikoui, with the decision supported by the office of House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), according to Fox News.

“Gold Star father Steve Nikoui should’ve never had to pay for Joe Biden’s failed withdrawal,” Mast posted on X. “All charges were dropped, thanks to the intervention from @SpeakerJohnson.”

Rep. Darrell Issa (R-CA) similarly expressed gratitude for the charges being dropped, writing that Nikoui “did nothing wrong.”

Nikoui’s son was killed in August 2021 when an ISIS-K terrorist carried out a suicide bombing outside the gates of Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul. Around 170 Afghan civilians were killed, in addition to the 13 U.S. troops.

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Nikoui’s arrest drew the ire of many Republicans, including Rep. Derrick Van Orden (R-WI), who claimed that his fellow U.S. lawmaker, Rep. Jamaal Bowman (D-NY), had not been arrested after pulling a fire alarm in the House building last year. In October, Bowman was charged with a misdemeanor for “willfully and knowingly” giving a “false alarm of a fire” inside the building and agreed to pay a $1,000 fine.

The Washington Examiner has contacted Schwalb’s office for comment.