Judge Lifts Restriction Barring Oath Keepers Leader From D.C.
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The leader of the Oath Keepers has been spotted recently at Trump rallies.
Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers who recently had his 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy commuted by President Donald Trump, will be allowed to enter the U.S. Capitol and Washington, D.C., following a brief tug-of-war in court.
Monday’s decision from U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta comes only days after the Justice Department, through interim U.S. Attorney for D.C. Ed Martin, a prominent Trump ally, first pushed back on an order by Mehta that barred Rhodes and several other Oath Keepers from entering the Capitol or Washington without first consulting prosecutors under conditional terms of their probation.
Rhodes was in the Capitol last week doing media interviews and in one interview with the BBC suggested police were responsible for the violence at the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol by Trump’s supporters.
Martin, once on the board of the Jan. 6 defendant advocacy group Patriot Freedom Project and a supporter of the Stop the Steal movement — he had VIP seating at the Ellipse with Trump ally Michael Flynn at the Jan. 6 Stop the Steal rally — said in a statement to Politico after Mehta first banned Rhodes: “If a judge decided that Jim Biden, General Mark Milley, or another individual were forbidden to visit America’s capital — even after receiving a last-minute, preemptive pardon from the former President — I believe most Americans would object.”
“The individuals referenced in our motion have had their sentences commuted — period, end of sentence,” Martin said.
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