Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, and another leader of the right-wing group, were found guilty on Tuesday of seditious conspiracy for the attack on the US Capitol by Donald Trump supporters, an important win for the Justice Department.
The verdicts against Rhodes and four co-defendants, after three days of deliberations by the 12-member jury, came in the highest-profile trial so far to emerge from the deadly Jan 6, 2021, assault on the US Capitol, a failed bid to overturn then-President Trump’s 2020 election defeat.
Rhodes, a Yale Law School-educated former Army paratrooper and disbarred attorney, was ac-cused by prosecutors during an eight-week trial of plotting to use force to try to block Congress from certifying Democratic President Joe Biden’s election victory over Republican Trump.—Reuters
