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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...
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...
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 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...
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....
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Current reporting shows prosecutors used the federal seditious-conspiracy statute (18 U.S.C. § 2384) to convict several Jan. 6 defendants — including Oath Keepers and Proud Boys leaders — but availabl...
The Oath Keepers’ founding ideology — a claim that members should obey only the U.S. Constitution and refuse orders they view as unconstitutional — has been demonstrated in multiple operations from ar...
A broad and often hostile segment of conservative figures responded to the backlash against Charlie Kirk by seeking punitive consequences for his critics, amplifying calls for ostracism, firings, and ...