Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes’ conviction shows democracy at work | Opinion
This artist sketch depicts the trial of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes as he testifies before U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta on charges of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, in Washington, Nov. 7, 2022. Rhodes was convicted on Nov. 29.Without a single shot or shout, democracy won a battle Tuesday in the case of seditious conspirator Stewart Rhodes. This is how a constitutional democracy is supposed to work.
During the course of the nearly two-month trial, one of Rhodes’ co-conspirators, Kelly Meggs, leader of the Florida chapter of the Oath Keepers, summed up the philosophical conflict at the core of this case in a message to Rhodes revealed to jurors: “We are Militia! We don’t have to play by their rules! We make the rules.
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