Oath Keepers leader ordered jailed until trial on January 6 charges
CBSN
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the far-right militia group known as the Oath Keepers, will be jailed pending trial in Washington, D.C., a Texas magistrate judge ruled Wednesday.
Rhodes is charged with multiple crimes stemming from his alleged planning and participation in the January 6 attack of the U.S. Capitol, including a count of seditious conspiracy, the most serious charge. He will likely be transferred from a Texas jail to Washington, D.C., where he will join a handful of his co-defendants in pretrial detention.
Prosecutors successfully argued in a Monday detention hearing that the leader of the militia group had to be detained because of the possibility that he could flee, was a danger to the community, and the risk he may pose to his co-defendants and other members of the Oath Keepers who have been charged for the January 6 Capitol attack.