Capitol Assault: Far-Right Oath Keepers Militia Leader Found Guilty of ‘Sedition’

UNITED STATES This is the heaviest charge of the violence of January 6, 2021, which alone is punishable by 20 years in prison

The leader of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, Stewart Rhodes, was arrested on January 13, 2022 and charged with sedition in connection with the investigation into the assault on the Capitol. — Susan Walsh/AP/SIPA

This is an extremely rare criminal charge. At the Oath Keepers trial, the far-right militia accused of participating in to a plot to keep Donald Trump in power during the Capitol storming, the group’s frontman, Stewart Rhodes, was found guilty of “sedition” by a Washington jury on Tuesday. A first for the defendants of January 6, 2021, which is punishable by 20 years in prison.

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