The lawyer whom Donald Trump has empowered to investigate the Jan. 6 prosecutors previously helped run a nonprofit that raised money for dozens of people who were charged with the most serious offenses, including sedition, conspiracy, and assaulting police officers at the U.S. Capitol. Serving as Trump’s interim U.S. Attorney …
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UPDATE 1/27: Judge Amit Mehta, responding to a motion by the Trump Department of Justice, has removed all post-release restrictions on Stewart Rodes and the other Oath Keepers whose sentences were commuted. Mehta’s order rules that DOJ’s expansive reading on Trump’s vaguely written commutation, to include not only the prison …
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Donald Trump has issued a blanket pardon to 1,500 of individuals who were convicted of offenses or faced charges relating to the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol. He also signed 14 commutations, deeming the offenders to have fulfilled their sentences with time served. “This is January 6,” …
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The Oath Keepers are back. And leaked documents suggest the group is trying to rebuild its brand by targeting youth, and in particular the Boy Scouts. The infamous paramilitary organization has been in disarray since the group’s founder, Stewart Rhodes, was arrested, charged, and convicted of seditious conspiracy for his …
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With Donald Trump winning back the White House, his Big Lie that Jan. 6 was just an enthusiastic rally that got out of hand, rather than an insurrectionist mob he unleashed to disrupt the count of the 2020 electoral college, has new currency. A new congressional Republican report, spearheaded by …
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Kevin Roberts, the president of the Heritage Foundation, is talking up revolution and the prospect of “bloodshed” in the wake of the Supreme Court’s decision placing the president outside the reach of criminal law. The Heritage Foundation is the once-staid think tank that, since Roberts’ arrival in 2021, has leaned …
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In HBO’s The Insurrectionist Next Door Alexandra Pelosi comes across as a charming and sympathetic bull in a china shop, eager to understand, find common ground with or at least provide a platform for people with whom she agrees on very little. That would be nearly everyone she talks to …
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A Texas sheriff with links to the Oath Keepers has been convicted of “official oppression” for the mistreatment of detainees in his jail in 2021, one of whom allegedly staged a suicide attempt. Jeffery C. Lyde is the suspended sheriff of Clay County, a rural area of North Texas near …
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Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers militia, whose members stormed the Capitol on Jan. 6, has been sentenced to 18 years for seditious conspiracy. The sentence is the longest yet for a conviction on charges related to the 2021 uprising. Kelly Meggs — a top Oath Keepers deputy …
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Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the Oath Keepers militia, is facing sentencing as the ringleader of a seditious conspiracy on Jan. 6, 2021 to prevent Joe Biden from becoming president. The government is seeking to lock up Rhodes for the next 25 years. But Rhodes is arguing he should get …
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