President Donald Trump commuted the extremist group leader's 18-year prison sentence in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
In response to a motion from the acting U.S. attorney, the federal judge reversed his decision to ban Phoenix man Edward Vallejo from the district.
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.
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.
It is not for this court to divine why President Trump commuted Defendants’ sentences, or to assess whether it was sensible to do so,” Mehta wrote. “The court’s sole task is to determine the act’s effect.
The DOJ compared the Capitol rioters to Jim Biden and General Mark Milley, neither of whom have been charged with crimes.
A judge barred the Oath Keepers founder from Washington, D.C., without court approval after Trump commuted his prison sentence for the Capitol riot.
WASHINGTON – A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court's approval after President Donald Trump commuted the far-right extremist group leader's 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago.
Rhodes was among hundreds of Trump supporters serving prison sentences for taking part in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol. They went free after Trump on Monday, his first day in office, issued a sweeping grant of clemency for all of the nearly 1,600 people criminally charged in the riot.
The judge who presided over a months-long seditious conspiracy trial ordered the defendants to keep out of D.C.
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s approval after President Donald Trump commuted the far-right extremist group leader’s 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating an attack on the U.S. Capitol four years ago.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who oversaw the seditious conspiracy ... he's concerned that criticism of the pardons from judges on Washington's federal court means his client and others on ...