Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes faces sentencing for seditious conspiracy in Jan. 6 attack.
TL;DR
Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for leading a plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election. Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy, obstructing an official proceeding, and tampering with documents. The sentence is the first handed down in over a decade for seditious conspiracy. Prosecutors had asked for 25 years behind bars and to apply enhanced terrorism sentencing penalties. Rhodes' actions were ruled as domestic terrorism by District Judge Amit Mehta.
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