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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 most recent federal convictions for seditious conspiracy cited in available reporting relate to prosecutions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol: several Oath Keepers were convict...
Few Americans have been prosecuted under sedition-related statutes in U.S. history, and modern federal law treats “seditious conspiracy” as a felony punishable by up to 20 years, not death for civilia...
Federal prosecutors did pursue the most serious charges available: dozens of defendants tied to organized groups were charged with seditious or seditious‑conspiracy counts (e.g., Oath Keepers and Prou...
On January 20, 2025, issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that pardoned the vast majority of people charged in connection with the , attack — approximately 1,500 to 1,583 defendants by contemporane...
Courts have convicted leaders and members of two far‑right groups — the Oath Keepers and the Proud Boys — of seditious conspiracy for actions tied to the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack, producing senten...
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...
On January 20, 2025, President Donald Trump issued a sweeping clemency proclamation that commuted the prison sentences of 14 named individuals tied to the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers and granted full,...
issued a proclamation on January 20, 2025, granting full, unconditional pardons to the vast majority of people convicted of federal offenses related to and commuting the sentences of a small, named gr...
The issued by granted sweeping clemency to roughly 1,500 people charged in connection with the January 6, 2021, attack and separately commuted the prison terms of 14 individuals—described by and multi...
Donald Trump issued a sweeping clemency on January 20, 2025 that pardoned or commuted the sentences of roughly 1,500 people charged or convicted in the January 6, 2021 Capitol attack, and that action ...
Legal authorities prosecuted multiple Jan. 6 participants — including members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys — for seditious conspiracy, and courts convicted some . Hundreds of defendants have sai...
There is no publicly reported, verifiable count of how many—if any— or who received pardons from now work for the ; major news organizations documented the blanket clemency and the identities of many ...
The claim that “a large number of non‑violent protesters on were given prison sentences for merely walking into ” is partly true in the narrow sense that many defendants prosecuted for entering the bu...
Federal prosecutors pursued seditious-conspiracy charges against leaders and members of two organized extremist groups tied to the , attack: key leaders and lieutenants of the and the ; juries ultimat...
A roster of pro‑Trump figures and fringe personalities spoke at or around the Ellipse rally on , and most used their platforms to amplify baseless claims of a , urge continued pressure on lawmakers, o...
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...