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JUST IN: Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes sentenced to 18 years in prison for seditious conspiracy over plot to keep Trump in power

The sentence is the first handed down in over a decade for seditious conspiracy. “A seditious conspiracy, when you take those two concepts and put it together, is among the most serious crimes an American can commit,” said District Judge Amit Mehta. “It is an offense against the government to use force. It is an offense against the people of our country.” Mehta on Thursday previously ruled that Rhodes’ actions amounted to domestic terrorism. “He was the one giving the orders,” Mehta said.

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. Prosecutors had asked Mehta to sentence Rhodes to 25 years behind bars, and to apply enhanced terrorism sentencing penalties. “This is terrorism,” prosecutor Kathryn Rakoczy said Thursday.

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