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Federal prosecutors charged 18 people in connection with the Jan. 6 attack with the rarely used Civil War–era count of seditious conspiracy; according to reporting aggregated in these sources, 14 of t...
The count of people federally charged with seditious conspiracy in connection to January 6, 2021 is — four Oath Keepers convicted in January 2023 plus two Oath Keepers leaders convicted in November 20...
The Justice Department charged and later secured convictions against leaders and members of two extremist groups — the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — on seditious conspiracy in connection with Jan....
A number of seditious-conspiracy convictions from Jan. 6 have been obtained at trial (notably against Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders) and those convictions have so far largely survived trial cour...
Fourteen high-profile defendants associated with the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were prosecuted on seditious-conspiracy or closely related insurrection statutes arising from the Jan. 6, 2021, Cap...
Federal prosecutors ultimately brought seditious-conspiracy charges only against a small subset of Jan. 6 defendants — concentrated in two organized groups — and courts adjudicated those cases through...
The short, verifiable answer is that very January 6 defendants were found guilty of the specific federal crime of “insurrection”; instead, prosecutors most often used other statutes, and only a small ...
Sentences for leaders of the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers were, until the January 2025 clemency actions, among the harshest handed down in the sprawling January 6 prosecutions—ranging from double‑d...
The government secured seditious-conspiracy convictions against leaders of both the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys; several of those defendants received multi‑year prison terms before a blanket cleme...
Multiple high-profile defendants tied to organized extremist groups were charged with and convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the January 6, 2021, Capitol attack; sentences have range...
Prosecutors secured convictions for seditious conspiracy tied to January 6 that focused on leaders and lieutenants of two extremist groups — the Proud Boys and the Oath Keepers — and most major report...
Seditious-conspiracy convictions from the Jan. 6 prosecutions produced some of the longest sentences imposed before the 2025 mass commutations: Stewart Rhodes received 18 years and Kelly Meggs 12 year...