Federal Prosecutors’ Top Jan. 6 Target Prepares to Turn the Tables on Justice Department

Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes is spending his time in federal prison planning legal action against the Justice Department.

Rhodes, one of the most prominent Jan. 6 defendants, is serving an 18-year sentence for seditious conspiracy, obstruction of an official proceeding and destruction of evidence.

President-elect Donald Trump, however, has changed the outlook for Rhodes and others in similar circumstances, having promised pardons for Jan. 6 defendants.

Rhodes told The Washington Times he is approaching his legal options “one step at a time.”

“If President Trump pardons me, I would love to sue [the Justice Department] for a 1983 claim. That’s a potential violation of civil rights. That’s a false imprisonment,” said Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate. “They did the same kind of lawfare against President Trump and at us.” (Read more from “Federal Prosecutors’ Top Jan. 6 Target Prepares to Turn the Tables on Justice Department” HERE)

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