Oath Keepers founder and North Texas resident Stewart Rhodes has big decisions to make now that he’s been convicted of sedition and a potentially lengthy prison sentence could mean he dies in prison because of his age.
Rhodes, 57, of Granbury, faces up to 20 years in federal prison for leading a violent plot with members of his extremist militia to overturn Joe Biden’s presidential win over Donald Trump.
A Washington, D.C., jury convicted Rhodes and a top deputy on Tuesday of the rarely used Civil War-era charge of seditious conspiracy and other charges after a nearly two-month trial. The five-defendant trial, the biggest to date in the government’s massive investigation into the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection, focused on the far-right extremist group’s efforts to keep Trump in the White House, even by using deadly force.
