#VACCINATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH US LAW FULL#
“It is a step towards full accountability,” Dunn said. US Capitol Police officer Harry Dunn, who testified earlier this week about his experience on January 6, told CNN that Donald Trump should be “next.” The seditious conspiracy charge has rarely been brought in the century and a half that the statute and its forerunners have been on the books.
#VACCINATIONS IN ACCORDANCE WITH US LAW TRIAL#
Rhodes was convicted of seditious conspiracy by a Washington, DC, jury in November in a historic criminal trial that was a test of the Justice Department’s ability to hold January 6 rioters accountable and validated prosecutors’ arguments that the breach of the Capitol was a grave threat to American democracy. He was the one who gave the order to go, and they went.” Oath Keepers wouldn’t have been there but for Stewart Rhodes, I don’t think anyone contends otherwise. He was the reason they were in fact in Washington DC. “He was the one organizing the teams that day. “He was the one giving the orders,” Mehta said. (Photo by Samuel Corum/Getty Images) Samuel Corum/Getty ImagesĬapitol riot victims recount their experiences ahead of Oath Keepers seditious conspiracy sentencing Trump supporters gathered in the nation's capital today to protest the ratification of President-elect Joe Biden's Electoral College victory over President Trump in the 2020 election. Capitol following a rally with President Donald Trump on Januin Washington, DC. WASHINGTON, DC - JANUARY 06: Pro-Trump supporters storm the U.S. It is an offense against the people of our country.”Įarlier on Thursday, Mehta ruled that Rhodes’ actions amounted to domestic terrorism. “It is an offense against the government to use force. “A seditious conspiracy, when you take those two concepts and put it together, is among the most serious crimes an American can commit,” the judge said. Mehta said Rhodes, 58, has expressed no remorse and continues to be a threat. Will we have another January 6 again? That remains to be seen.” The judge added: “I dare say we all now hold our collective breaths when an election is approaching. Rhodes – and I never have said this to anyone I have sentenced – you pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country,” Mehta said. “What we absolutely cannot have is a group of citizens who – because they did not like the outcome of an election, who did not believe the law was followed as it should be – foment revolution,” District Judge Amit Mehta said before handing down the sentence. The sentences are the first handed down in over a decade for seditious conspiracy. While the mandate will no longer be enforced, health care facilities are advised to implement their own policies.Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the Oath Keepers, was sentenced to 18 years in prison on Thursday for leading a far-reaching plot to keep then-President Donald Trump in power after he lost the 2020 election.Ī second Oath Keepers member, Kelly Meggs, the leader of the Florida contingent of the group, was sentenced to 12 years in prison. They have lost everything, and we want to prevent that from happening again.” "If they can keep doing this every time there’s a new flu vaccine mandate they want to pass, or want to put in another COVID vaccine mandate, or if they want to do the next pandemic, the next vaccine, this will happen again. “It’s taken years of litigation to get here," Gibson said. Sujata Sidhu Gibson, an attorney representing health care workers in the case, argued the case is not moot and asked the court to still make a decision. "But what I can confirm is the department no longer intends to enforce this rule and will be sending out guidance to hospital and other health care facility administrators within the coming week.”īACKGROUND: Unvaccinated NY health care workers won't be rehired, despite mandate overturning and staffing 'crisis'
“The repeal is being done through the notice and comment process," Hitsous said. Jonathan Hitsous, an attorney representing the state, informed justices that he had just been told the state would be repealing the vaccine mandate and the case is now moot. That announcement came during an appellate court hearing Wednesday in Rochester over a case challenging the state’s vaccine mandate for health care workers.
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