6, authorities say the Oath Keepers recruited members, purchased weapons and set up a “quick reaction force” with guns on standby outside the capital with the goal of keeping President Donald Trump in office. It will also be a major test for the Department of Justice, which has brought rarely used and difficult-to-prove charges of seditious conspiracy against Oath Keepers members and those of another far-right extremist group, the Proud Boys.Īuthorities say Rhodes was the ringleader of the Oath Keepers' plot to violently stop the transfer of power. 6, 2021, that delayed the certification of Joe Biden's 2020 president victory over Donald Trump. 27 in federal court will be the most serious case to go to trial so far in the riot of Jan.
The case against Rhodes and four co-defendants starting Sept. And, you know, I just think that he’s been unfairly accused and wrongly prosecuted in this case." he never told anybody to go into the Capitol,” Tarpley said. Tarpley told The Associated Press after the hearing that he's disappointed but respects the court's decision and remains willing to help Rhodes' defense team at trial. Mehta said Tarpley is free to join Rhodes' two other lawyers - James Lee Bright and Phillip Linder - but Mehta was not going to remove them from the case. Rhodes' trial, not going to happen,” Mehta told Edward Tarpley, whom Rhodes wanted as his new lawyer. “The notion that you are going to create the kind of havoc that you will - and havoc is the only appropriate word I can think of - by moving Mr. District Judge Amit Mehta said Rhodes' suggestion that his lawyers are not providing effective counsel appeared to be “complete and utter nonsense” and questioned why concerns about his lawyers were surfacing for the first time just weeks before trial. Rhodes' new lawyer argued that the Oath Keepers founder has not been given enough time to adequately prepare for trial and urged the judge to delay his trial at least 90 days.īut the obviously irritated judge called the claim that Rhodes is being denied a fair trial “simply false.” Rhodes said in court papers this week there had been a “breakdown” in communication between him and his two lawyers, who he claimed weren't defending him forcefully enough. The high-profile seditious conspiracy trial for the leader of the far-right Oath Keepers extremist group will begin this month after a judge on Wednesday rejected a last-minute bid by Stewart Rhodes to replace his lawyers and delay his Capitol riot case.
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