The Department of Justice (DOJ) under the Trump administration has demanded that members of the Oath Keepers militia who have been barred from entering Washington D.C. or the U.S. Capitol be allowed to do so.
On Friday, a federal judge blocked the organization's leader, Stewart Rhodes, from entering D.C. without prior court approval after Rhodes visited Congress unannounced. Rhodes, who had been indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, had his sentence commuted by President Donald Trump earlier this week.
