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Anna Betts

US judge rescinds order barring Oath Keepers leader from Washington DC

A man wearing an eye-patch is smiling
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, at an event about the economy in Las Vegas, Nevada, in January 2025. Photograph: Leah Millis/Reuters

A federal judge has rescinded an order barring Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, and several other defendants charged in connection to the 6 January 2021 attack on Congress, from entering Washington DC and the US Capitol without permission from a court.

On Monday, the US district judge Amit Mehta stated in an order that while the court was declining to dismiss the supervised release terms entirely – as the justice department had requested – the defendants were “no longer bound by the judicially imposed conditions of supervised release.

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