Wisconsin state Sen. Chris Larson feels justice was served with the recent guilty verdict on sedition charges rendered against Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and a top associate stemming from the months-long plot to manufacture political chaos designed to thwart President Joe Biden’s smooth ascension to the White House, ultimately sparking the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
“Glad to see accountability for those responsible for the attack on our Capitol,” Larson posted on Twitter in the aftermath of Rhodes and Kelly Meggs being found guilty of seditious conspiracy. Throughout the proceedings, the Washington Post reports prosecutors made it a point of highlighting how the two spent months planning the violent attacks.
Though found not guilty of the more serious charge of sedition, the Washington Post reports three other members of the right-wing, militant group, joined Rhodes and Meggs in also being found guilty of obstruction of an official proceeding and aiding and abetting for their actions.
According to NBC News, the seditious conspiracy charges come with a sentence of up to 20 years in prison.
During the weeks long trial, attorneys for Rhodes maintained that he and other defendants only brought weapons with them on their trip to Washington in the event then President Donald Trump moved to mobilize private militias to prevent Biden from formally taking office, which many Oath Keepers members had openly called for.
Rhodes also insisted many of them on hand had come to the nation’s capital as bodyguards and peacekeepers for what they figured would be a tenuous time.
As the fallout from the events that took place that day continue to be felt, the government has now secured felony convictions against all 19 of the defendants who have gone to trial on felony counts stemming from the actions they took that although juries hung on some charges in two cases.
In all, roughly 900 people face federal charges stemming from the rioting, with in the neighborhood of half of them facing felonies that include assaulting police or obstructing a congressional proceeding. About 450, roughly half of the overall number charged, have already pleaded guilty.
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