US judge rescinds order barring Oath Keepers leader from Washington DC
Stewart Rhodes, ex-head of far-right group, had been banned from district and Capitol Hill without court consentA federal judge has rescinded an order barring Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, and several other defendants charged in connection to the 6 January2021 attack on Congress, from entering Washington DC and the US Capitol without permission from a court.On Monday, the US district judge Amit Mehta stated in an order that while the court is declining to dismiss the supervised release terms entirely – as the justice department had requested – the defendants are “no longer bound by the judicially imposed conditions of supervised release. Continue reading...
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Stewart Rhodes, ex-head of far-right group, had been banned from district and Capitol Hill without court consent
A federal judge has rescinded an order barring Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, and several other defendants charged in connection to the 6 January2021 attack on Congress, from entering Washington DC and the US Capitol without permission from a court.
On Monday, the US district judge Amit Mehta stated in an order that while the court is declining to dismiss the supervised release terms entirely – as the justice department had requested – the defendants are “no longer bound by the judicially imposed conditions of supervised release. Continue reading...
