Oath Keepers to stand trial on charges of seditious conspiracy
by Edward Helmore from on (#649KR)
Group allegedly discussed paramilitary training and quick reaction force' to get weapons to Capitol quickly on January 6
The highest-profile prosecution to stem from the January 6 attack on the US Capitol gets under way on Monday in Washington DC, where the founder and four members of the far-right Oath Keepers group will stand trial in federal court on civil war-era charges of seditious conspiracy.
It's a high-stakes trial for the US government, which will attempt to prove that Stewart Rhodes and his associates spent weeks marshaling members of the group to prepare to use violence to deny the certification of the 2016 election and keep Donald Trump in the White House.
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