A federal judge has reversed his recent move barring Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — and a dozen others whose Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences were commuted last week by President Donald Trump — from visiting Washington, D.C., without court permission.
D.C. Judge Amit Mehta ordered Oath Keeper members who were convicted of Jan. 6 crimes but whose sentences were commuted by President Trump.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw the Oath Keepers conspiracy trials, vacated the order after determining that it would be “improper” to modify their original sentences “post ...
President Donald Trump commuted the extremist group leader's 18-year prison sentence in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A single-page order from District Judge Amit Mehta on Friday forbids Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the group from entering the nation’s capital without a court ...
Several members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right extremist group, cannot enter Washington, DC, or the grounds of the US Capitol without first receiving court permission, a federal judge said Friday, days after President Donald Trump commuted their prison sentences.
Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, showed up at President Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas days after being released from prison.
Ed Martin — acting U.S. Attorney for Washington, D.C — filed a motion to dismiss the judge’s terms, arguing that Trump’s commutations mean that Rhodes and his allies are no longer subject to the court’s supervision.
After the Justice Department says Trump wanted all conditions on sentences ended, a federal judge eliminates post-trial supervision for all the Oath Keepers’ leaders.
A judge had ordered the Oath Keeper members convicted of crimes related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021, to be barred from entering the U.S. Capitol court permission.
Their leader Elmer Stewart Rhodes had his sentence commuted by Trump after being convicted by a jury of plotting a conspiracy to stop the transfer of power on Jan. 6.