Oath Keepers face seditious conspiracy charges. DOJ has mixed record with such cases
In the biggest Capitol riot case yet, 11 Oath Keepers stand charged of seditious conspiracy. The government faces steep challenges in proving them guilty of the hefty and rare charges.
The first significant legal skirmish in the biggest case so far to emerge from the investigation into the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol went to the Justice Department.
Last week, a magistrate judge in Texas ordered that the founder of the Oath Keepers extremist group, Stewart Rhodes, remain in jail pending trial. Rhodes and 10 others are charged with seditious conspiracy for allegedly plotting to prevent by force the transfer of presidential power to Joe Biden.
The bigger legal battle lies ahead as prosecutors seek to prove their case and the central charge of seditious conspiracy.
That charge carries both symbolic and political weight â at root, it's alleging an attack on the country.
