The US Department of Justice filed a motion in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit to vacate the seditious conspiracy convictions of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and other Jan. 6 defendants.
The DOJ argued that permanently dismissing the indictments and erasing the guilty verdicts is “in the interests of justice”. This filing follows President Donald Trump’s previous decision to commute the sentences of Rhodes and 11 other high-profile defendants, which allowed them to leave prison but kept their felony convictions in place. If the federal appeals court grants this DOJ request, it will wipe out the convictions, clearing their records and restoring rights such as firearm ownership.
