The newly freed founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers stood outside the D.C. jail early Tuesday, awaiting the release of Jan. 6 defendants after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons,
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, showed up at President Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas days after being released from prison.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.
WASHINGTON ― Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers whose prison sentence ... at a federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland prior to his release.
A judge barred the Oath Keepers founder from Washington, D.C., without court approval after Trump commuted his prison sentence for the Capitol riot.
The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
Rhodes was released from a Maryland prison a day earlier. Mehta also barred other Oath Keepers members who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for participating in a violent plot to attack the ...
A federal judge on Monday walked back his order barring Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the right-wing extremist group from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s permission after President Trump commuted their sentences for their roles in the Jan.
Sen. Lindsey Graham, a top Trump ally, says the White House pardoning rioters who fought with police while storming the U.S. is “sending the wrong signal.”
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.
A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering the District without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the leader's 18-year prison sentence for January 6.