WASHINGTON, DC — The leader and four members
of the far-right Oath Keepers militia who joined the January 6, 2021 attack on
the
US Capitol go on trial Tuesday for the rare charge of sedition.
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Stewart Rhodes, the eye patch-wearing former soldier
and Yale Law School graduate who plotted a military-style assault on the
Capitol, and his followers are charged with taking up weapons against the US in
an effort to keep Donald Trump in the
White House despite his election defeat.
The sedition charge is the toughest yet in the
prosecutions of hundreds who took part in the January 6 rebellion, which aimed
to reverse Joe Biden’s victory in the November 2020 election, and brings up to
20 years in prison.
Rhodes and eight Oath Keeper members in total have
been charged with sedition; four of the eight will go on trial beginning
November 29.
Rhodes and his followers conspired “to oppose by
force the law transfer of presidential power,” the charges say.
The nine Oath
Keepers will be the first of some 870 charged in the Capitol attack to go on
trial for seditious conspiracy. The sedition charge is very rarely used by US
prosecutors. The last time a conviction was obtained on the charge was against
Ramzi Yousef, the planner of the 1993 World Trade Center bombing.
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