The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.
Within hours, the Justice Department – which under the Biden administration had secured Rhodes' 2022 conviction – argued that Judge Amit Mehta didn't have the authority to issue that restriction. Trump commuted Rhodes' 18-year sentence Monday along with the sentences of 13 other defendants.
The order comes just days after Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes was seen in the Capitol meeting with GOP lawmakers and petitioning the release of Oath Keepers still incarcerated on separate charges.
The newly freed founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers stood outside the D.C. jail early Tuesday, awaiting the release of Jan. 6 defendants after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons,
The founder of the right-wing 'Oath Keepers' militia, who himself was recently had his 18-year- prison sentence commuted, appeared outside of D.C.'s Central Det
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.