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 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A federal judge has rescinded an order barring Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, and several other defendants charged in connection to the 6 January2021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.