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Judge Lifts D.C. Travel Ban for Oath Keepers Leader After Trump’s Mass Clemency for Jan. 6 Convicts

HeadlineJan 31, 2025

A federal judge has lifted travel restrictions on Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group, after President Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence as part of a mass pardon for 1,500 January 6 rioters. Rhodes will no longer be barred from entering Washington, D.C., or the U.S. Capitol grounds. In 2022, a federal jury found Rhodes guilty of seditious conspiracy after prosecutors showed he played a key role in planning the January 6 insurrection.

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