{"id":219539,"date":"2026-08-05T16:19:19","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:19:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/judge-grants-doj-bid-to-dismiss-january-6-cases-against-rightwing-oath-keepers-theguardian-com\/"},"modified":"2026-08-05T16:19:19","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T16:19:19","slug":"judge-grants-doj-bid-to-dismiss-january-6-cases-against-rightwing-oath-keepers-theguardian-com","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/judge-grants-doj-bid-to-dismiss-january-6-cases-against-rightwing-oath-keepers-theguardian-com\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge grants DoJ bid to dismiss January 6 cases against rightwing Oath Keepers &#8211; theguardian.com"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling vacates convictions of founder Stewart Rhodes and other militia members who took part in 2021 Capitol attack<br \/>A US judge on Tuesday granted the justice department\u2019s bid to dismiss cases against \u200cmembers of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia who took part in the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/us-capitol-breach\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">6 January 2021 attack \u200bon the US Capitol<\/a>, according to a \u200bcourt filing.<br \/>The ruling from Washington-based US district judge Amit Mehta tosses out convictions \u200bof Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other \u200bmembers of the group who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for plotting to stop the transfer of \u200bpower after <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/donaldtrump\" data-link-name=\"in body link\">Donald Trump<\/a> lost the \u200b2020 election.<br \/>All nine of the defendants had already been freed \u200cfrom \u2060prison as part of Trump\u2019s sweeping move to pardon nearly all of the 1,600 people charged in the attack and commute the prison \u200bsentences of the \u200bremaining defendants.<br \/>\u201cToday\u2019s \u2060epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of \u200bthe prosecutors and law enforcement officers \u200bwho \u2060secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy \u2013 the \u2060peaceful \u200btransfer of presidential power \u2013 to \u200bbuckle,\u201d Mehta wrote.<br \/>\u201cThe court cannot write a different ending.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.google.com\/rss\/articles\/CBMiigFBVV95cUxNTm9QR3ZRVDRUTDFYcTh0Y0V6bWVMemZ0QW1BSktST3dEZ0ItcDJUUXJBWWlpNFIxNFBwaEdlQUFSLVQwdjJUZmdiNExSUUtFVC1TVVVGTWt5dVZBV3B6dFVPalY0OUxxZXBHWVdhX2diYTFjekdmRDJmOHVHenBwcHZBNlg2emhFaXc?oc=5\">source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ruling vacates convictions of founder Stewart Rhodes and other militia members who took part in 2021 Capitol attackA US judge on Tuesday granted the justice department\u2019s bid to dismiss cases against \u200cmembers of the rightwing Oath Keepers militia who took part in the 6 January 2021 attack \u200bon the US Capitol, according to a \u200bcourt [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":219540,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219539","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-us","entry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219539","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219539"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219539\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/219540"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219539"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219539"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/quixnet.net\/wpinstance\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219539"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}