Judge Lifts Restrictions on Jan. 6 Convicts Who Had Sentences Commuted

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Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and others are now free to enter Washington.

A federal judge on Jan. 27 reversed restrictions he had imposed on Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and a number of others who were convicted of crimes associated with the Jan. 6, 2021, breach of the U.S. Capitol.

U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta said he agreed with U.S. officials, who had asked the court to remove the restrictions.

โ€œDefendants are no longer bound by the judicially imposed conditions of supervised release,โ€ Mehta said in an 8-page order.

President Donald Trump on Jan. 20 pardoned some 1,500 Jan. 6 defendants and commuted the sentences of 14 people, including Rhodes, who was convicted of seditious conspiracy and sentenced in 2023 to 18 years in prison for plotting to disrupt a session of Congress convened to certify the 2020 electoral vote.

Officials have released many of those granted relief. Rhodes, after being released from federal prison in Maryland on Jan. 21, visited Capitol Hill to advocate for the release of all.

Just days later, on Jan. 24, Mehta issued an order barring Rhodes and eight co-defendants from entering Washington, absent judicial permission. The brief document did not provide a rationale for the order.

Edward R. Martin Jr., the interim U.S. attorney for the District of Columbia, subsequently filed a motion telling the judge that Rhodes and the others โ€œare no longer subject to the terms of supervised release and probation,โ€ since their sentences were commuted. That means the court could not modify the terms of their supervised release, since their supervised release is no longer active, according to Martin.

โ€œThe United States hereby indicates that the Order must be vacated,โ€ he said.

Mehta said on Monday that he read the motion and considered the arguments. The judge acknowledged that he did not impose the travel restrictions when originally sentencing the nine convicts. He also said that the judiciary must defer to the president on clemency, based on Supreme Court precedent.

โ€œThe court finds that the Department of Justiceโ€™s reading of the Proclamation as both reducing Defendantsโ€™ custodial sentences and doing away with their terms of supervised release is reasonable,โ€ Mehta said.

Byย Zachary Stieber

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