Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes faces sentencing for role in Jan. 6 attack
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Washington — Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right group known as the Oath Keepers, is set to be sentenced Thursday on numerous felony counts tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol, including the serious charge of seditious conspiracy.
Prosecutors have asked a federal judge in Washington, D.C., to impose a harsh sentence of 25 years in prison, saying Rhodes and his co-defendants planned to impede the peaceful transfer of power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden. Rhodes was convicted by a jury last November.
Rhodes — the first Jan. 6 defendant to be sentenced for the severe seditious charge — "pushed the idea among Oath Keepers members and others that with a large enough mob, they could intimidate Congress and its Members and impose the conspirators' will rather than the American people's: to stop the certification of the next President of the United States," the government alleged in pre-sentencing filings.
