A federal jury has convicted the founder and one other member of the Oath Keepers of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021.
A federal jury in Washington D.C. has convicted two members of the far right Oath Keepers — including founder Stewart Rhodes — of seditious conspiracy for their involvement in the attack on the U.S. Capitol building on January 6, 2021, and for their attempts to overturn the results of the 2020 presidential election.of obstruction of an official proceeding in Congress, but were found not guilty of seditious conspiracy.
“They claimed to wrap themselves in the Constitution. They trampled it, instead. They claimed to be saving the Republic, but they fractured it, instead,”Rhodes and others spouted violent rhetoric as they stormed the Capitol building — including suggesting that Trump’s loyalists attack Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi .
Some legal experts believe that Rhodes’s conviction indicates that similar charges could be levied against other key players in the January 6 attack— including former President Donald Trump.
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