Prosecutors Seek 25 Years For Oath Keepers Founder

The Washington Post reports:

U.S. prosecutors on Friday asked a federal judge to sentence Oath Keepers founder and leader Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison and eight of his followers to at least 10 years behind bars starting later this month, in the first punishments to be handed down to far-right extremist group members convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

“No January 6 case sentenced to date is comparable to the scope and magnitude of these defendants’ convictions and conduct,” Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey S. Nestler wrote for a prosecution team, asking U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta to apply “swift and severe” punishment, including an enhanced terrorism penalty, for the Oath Keepers’ actions that were intended to intimidate or coerce the government.

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Prosecutors asked to sentence Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes to 25 years in prison and eight of his followers to 10 years, in the first punishments to be handed down to far-right extremist group members convicted in the Jan. 6 attack on the Capitol. https://t.co/1VDYO0PYUq

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