Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes speaks to members of the media outside the D.C. Central Detention Facility in Washington on Jan. 21, 2025. Roberto Schmidt/AFP via Getty Images
The Justice Department is petitioning an appeals court to throw out the convictions of unpardoned defendants who were charged in connection with the U.S. Capitol breach on Jan. 6, 2021.
“The United States has determined … that dismissal of this criminal case is in the interests of justice,” read a motion filed April 14 in the case of Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, and Jessica Watkins.
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