Elmer Stewart Rhodes, the leader of the Oath Keepers who recently had his 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy commuted by President Donald Trump, will be allowed to enter the U.S. Capitol and Washington,
Among those impacted was David Moerschel, 37, a self-described former member of the Oath Keepers militia group from Port Charlotte, Florida, who had his sentence commuted late Monday evening.
The leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were both freed from long sentences by President Donald Trump. Who are they? And what are their groups?
Several Florida names are on that list, including Joe Biggs of Ormond Beach, the leader of the Volusia County Proud Boys, and Oath Keepers Joseph Hackett, Kenneth Harrelson, Kelly Meggs and David ...
The Oath Keepers founder met with Republican Rep. Gus Bilirakis of Florida to lobby for a pardon for fellow Oath Keeper and January 6 rioter Jeremy Brown, who was sentenced to seven years in prison on weapons charges.
Just hours after his swearing-in ceremony on Monday, President Donald Trump pardoned the more than 1,500 people charged in connection to to the riot at the U.S. Capitol on January 6, 2021. The pardons and commuted sentences were extended to members and leaders of far-right groups,
Joseph Biggs, a member of the Proud Boys from Ormond Beach, had a 17-year sentence commuted by Trump. Prosecutors said Biggs led a group of rioters chanting, “Whose house? Our house,” to tear down fencing and burst through barricades at the Capitol. Biggs famously bragged on video: “We’ve gone through every barricade thus far.”
President Donald Trump pardoned all of the nearly 1,600 people charged in connection with the Jan. 6 riot at the Capitol and commuted the sentences for 14.
Initially, the IRS made Direct File available only to government employees in 12 states: Arizona, California, Florida, Massachusetts, Nevada, New Hampshire, New York, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Washington State and Wyoming. It was later made available to private-sector taxpayers.
For a time, they all occupied the same pod—some called it the Patriot Wing—where they would sing the national anthem together every night. Trump added their choral rendition to his Mar-a-Lago iPad playlist and put it on at his rallies.
A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, Florida chapter leader Kelly Meggs of Marion County, and others from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s approval after President Donald Trump commuted the group leader’s 18-year prison sentence for orchestrating an attack on the U.
Hours after a federal judge issued an order prohibiting Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other members of the far-right militia group he founded from traveling to Washington, D.C. or the U.S. Capitol without court permission,