A federal prosecutor is pushing back against a judge's order that barred a recently sprung-from-prison Oath Keepers founder and one of the architects of the Jan. 6 Capitol breach from going into Washington D.
WASHINGTON -- A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the far-right extremist group leader's 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago.
Rhodes was convicted by a federal jury of sedition conspiracy in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. President Trump pardoned him on Monday.
Ed Martin, a longtime advocate for Jan. 6 defendants recently named to run the prosecutors’ office, sought to undo a judge’s order barring Stewart Rhodes from visiting Washington.
The founder of the right-wing 'Oath Keepers' militia, who himself was recently had his 18-year- prison sentence commuted, appeared outside of D.C.'s Central Det
The DOJ compared the Capitol rioters to Jim Biden and General Mark Milley, neither of whom have been charged with crimes.
Stewart Rhodes, the Oath Keepers founder and convicted seditionist whom Donald Trump recently freed, has been barred from visiting Washington, D.C.
Federal judge bars Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from Washington D.C. following Trump's commutation of his sentence for the January 6th Capitol attack.
D.C. Judge Amit Mehta ordered Oath Keeper members who were convicted of Jan. 6 crimes but whose sentences were commuted by President Trump.
Hours after a federal judge issued an order prohibiting Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other members of the far-right militia group he founded from traveling to Washington, D.C. or the U.S. Capitol without court permission,
Within hours, the Justice Department – which under the Biden administration had secured Rhodes' 2022 conviction – argued that Judge Amit Mehta didn't have the authority to issue that restriction. Trump commuted Rhodes' 18-year sentence Monday along with the sentences of 13 other defendants.