Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for plot to keep Trump in power
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Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for leading a far-reaching plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
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Oath Keepers to receive first seditious conspiracy sentences for January 6
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Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for plot to keep Trump in power
Prosecutors will urge the judge to put Rhodes behind bars for 25 years, which would be the harshest sentence by far handed down in the U.S. Capitol attack.
WASHINGTON — Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and members of his antigovernment group will be the first Jan. 6 defendants sentenced for seditious conspiracy in a series of hearings beginning this week that will set the standard for more punishments of far-right extremists to follow.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and members of his extremist group will be the first Jan. 6 defendants sentenced for seditious conspiracy in a series of hearings beginning this week that could forecast the punishments coming for top Proud Boys leaders convicted of the same charge.
Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes is facing his sentencing after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power. He will
Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far in the hundreds of Capitol riot cases.
Appearing in court, Stewart Rhodes founder decried his seditious conspiracy trial, comparing himself to a Soviet dissident. The judge called him an “ongoing threat”
The sentence for Stewart Rhodes was the longest so far in the federal investigation of the Capitol attack and the first issued to a defendant convicted of sedition.
Stewart Rhodes is the first person charged in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest that has been handed down so far in the Capitol riot cases.
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for leading a far-reaching plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.
Oathkeeper Stewart Rhodes was sentenced to 18 years behind bars for seditious conspiracy, amounting to the longest sentence for a Jan. 6 conviction so far.
Stewart Rhodes, who said after the Capitol attack that the rioters “should have brought rifles," received the longest sentence of any Jan. 6 defendant to date.
Stewart Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy and other felony charges for plotting to oppose the lawful transfer of power after the 2020 election.
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