WASHINGTON — Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the Yale Law School graduate who founded the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group, lost his bid to be freed from jail while he awaits a trial for seditious conspiracy over his role in the Jan. 6 Capitol riot.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta in Washington sided Friday with federal prosecutors who argued that the serious charges Rhodes faces along with 10 members of his group warrants keeping him in custody.
Rhodes “will remain detained” as prosecutors have shown enough evidence of his “dangerousness” that could lead him to potentially cause harm to others, Mehta said.
