Judge Vacates Oath Keepers' Seditious Conspiracy Convictions

A federal judge on Thursday vacated the seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other group members, citing President Donald Trump's pardon and commutation of their sentences.

The ruling by Washington-based US District Judge Amit Mehta vacates convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other group members found guilty of seditious conspiracy for plotting to block the transfer of power after Donald Trump lost the 2020 election. All nine defendants had already been freed from prison as part of Trump's sweeping pardon of nearly all 1,600 people charged in the attack and commutation of sentences for the remaining defendants. "Today's epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy – the peaceful transfer of presidential power – to buckle, Mehta wrote. "The court cannot write a different ending.

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