The top federal prosecutor for Washington is a conservative activist who promoted Donald Trump’s conspiracy theories
In response to a motion from the acting U.S. attorney, the federal judge reversed his decision to ban Phoenix man Edward Vallejo from the district.
A federal judge on Monday reversed his order prohibiting Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the group from entering Washington, D.C., without court approval, following President Trump’s commutation of their sentences for their involvement in the January 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta ruled that Apple had waited too long to file their motion and granting the company's request would cause significant delays to the case's already packed schedule.
The DOJ compared the Capitol rioters to Jim Biden and General Mark Milley, neither of whom have been charged with crimes.
A single-page order from District Judge Amit Mehta on Friday forbids Oath Keepers ... walked through congressional office buildings in Washington, D.C., after Trump released him from prison.
It is not for this court to divine why President Trump commuted Defendants’ sentences, or to assess whether it was sensible to do so,” Mehta wrote. “The court’s sole task is to determine the act’s effect.
A judge barred the Oath Keepers founder from Washington, D.C., without court approval after Trump commuted his prison sentence for the Capitol riot.
President Donald Trump had commuted the extremist group leader Stewart Rhodes' 18-year prison sentence in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol.
A federal judge has reversed his recent move barring Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes — and a dozen others whose Jan. 6 seditious conspiracy sentences were commuted last week by President Donald Trump — from visiting Washington, D.C., without court permission.
A federal judge on Friday barred Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers group, and others in its top ranks from entering Washington - and specifically the U.S. Capitol - unless they get court permission,