Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes and four co-defendants will become the first Americans in a decade tried for seditious conspiracy when their trial begins Tuesday. All were charged days after the January 6 Capitol insurrection.
Federal prosecutors accuse Rhodes and his co-defendants of conspiring to “oppose by force the lawful transfer of presidential power” when they participated in the attack.
Khaya Himmelman is a fact checker for The Dispatch. She is a graduate of Columbia Journalism School and Barnard College.
