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A judge is poised to sentence two members of the Oath Keepers who stormed the U.S. Capitol in a military-style formation with other members of the far-right extremist group during the Jan. 6, 2021, riot

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes will be sentenced Thursday after a landmark verdict convicting him of spearheading a weekslong plot to keep former President Donald Trump in power, culminating in far-right extremists attacking the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021

WASHINGTON — Stewart Rhodes, leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers group, and one other defendant were convicted of seditious conspiracy for their roles in the storming of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, capping a trial of the most serious crimes alleged among the hundreds of people prosecuted.

Verdict is likely to be a bellwether for future cases against participants in January 6, 2021, attack on the US Capitol.

Far-right militia leader faces up to 20 years in prison after plotting to violently subvert 2020 election

Jurors have started deliberating in the Capitol riot case accusing Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates of a violent plot to stop the transfer of presidential power from Republican Donald Trump to Democrat Joe Biden

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors failed to present evidence that members of the extremist Oath Keepers militia planned to violently attack the Capitol on Jan. 6, lawyers for three defendants on trial for seditious conspiracy said in closing arguments to a federal jury in Washington.

A defendant charged alongside members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia group in the Jan. 6 riot at the U.S. Capitol is playing down his messages about ferrying what he called heavy weapons across the Potomac River

He testified that the attack was "nowhere in the mission scope at all" of his group, He and four other members are charged with seditious conspiracy.