Federal judge presiding over far-right Oathstakers founder's seditious conspiracy trial Stewart Rhodes The battle with Washington, D.C.'s new top prosecutor, Washington state's new federal prosecutor and the U.S. Capitol is mired in the aftermath of President Trump's sentencing.
District Court Judge Amit Mehta on Friday ordered Rhodes to be sworn in as guardian Kelly MeggsKenneth Harrelson, Jessica WatkinsRoberto Minuta, Edward Vallejo, David Moerchel and Joseph Hacket (all convicted and serving multi-year prison terms), are barred from entering the U.S. Capitol in Washington, D.C., without first obtaining court permission. . "
On Monday, Mr. Trump pardoned more than 1,500 defendants as part of his sweeping clemency campaign for those connected to the Jan. 6 Capitol attack, and granted the immunity of Rhodes, his co-defendants and certain members. Sentence transportation. proud boys Groups also accused seditious conspiracy. Not everyone who received the commute ended up being convicted on seditious conspiracy charges.
The decision to commute their sentences rather than pardon the defendants and expunge their cases leaves Rhodes' case open to possible oversight by Mehta and the federal court system.
Trump ally Ally Edward Martin, acting U.S. attorney in Washington, D.C., opposed the judge's order to "no longer be subject to the terms of supervised release and probation."
"The terms of supervised release may not be modified by the court," prosecutors wrote in the court application.
The head of Martin's office leads all Capitol breach prosecutions and has brought charges against more than 1,500 defendants.
After receiving the reversal, Rhodes and the other January 6 defendants appeared on Capitol Hill on Wednesday.
"If a judge rules that Jim Biden, General Mark Milley or others are barred from visiting the nation's capital, even after accepting the former president's last-minute, preemptive pardon, I believe the majority will," Martin said in a statement. Americans love objects.