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Stewart Rhodes
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Verified profile photographStewart Rhodes, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, is a former U.S. Army paratrooper who came out of a broken military career, worked his way through college, and finished at Yale Law School. The service came first, and it ended in an injury. Rhodes served as an Army paratrooper and received an honorable discharge after he was hurt in a night parachuting accident. (FACT, FOX 4; Newsweek.) What he did next is the part people skip. He went back to school. Rhodes attended the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, then earned a law degree from Yale Law School. He went on to clerk for a justice of the Arizona Supreme Court and later worked for U.S. Rep. Ron Paul, supervising his interns. (FACT, FOX 4; Newsweek; CBS News.) Paratrooper, honorable discharge, UNLV, Yale Law, state supreme court clerkship, Capitol Hill staff. That is a documented record of a man who kept climbing after a hard stop. In March 2009 he founded the Oath Keepers, launching it publicly in Lexington, Massachusetts. (FACT, public record.) THE LEGAL FIGHT, AND IT IS STILL MOVING Stewart Rhodes was arrested January 13, 2022. A jury returned a verdict November 29, 2022 on three felony counts, and he was sentenced May 25, 2023. The archive states that record plainly and does not soften it. On January 20, 2025, his sentence was commuted to time served under the presidential clemency proclamation, a commutation, not a pardon. (FACT, White House presidential action, January 20, 2025.) The case did not end there. The D.C. Circuit reportedly vacated the affected judgments and remanded on May 21, 2026. The government moved May 22, 2026 to dismiss the indictment with prejudice. On May 29, 2026, U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta deferred final disposition and required a fuller factual explanation from the government. (DOCUMENTED INFERENCE from docket reporting.) NEEDS AUTHENTICATION: no later final district-court dismissal order has been verified through July 25, 2026. As of this writing, Stewart Rhodes's case remains legally unresolved on the public record. If you have the signed orders, send them. CASE RECORD Case No. 1:22-cr-00015-APM, U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; appeal in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. Arrested January 13, 2022. DOJ defendant page: https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/defendants/rhodes-elmer-stewart-iii This profile is unclaimed. If this is you, or your family, claiming it is free, forever.
The case file
On the record
- Case number
- 1:22-cr-00015-APM
- Court
- U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia; U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit
- Judge
- Amit P. Mehta
- Defense attorney
- James Lee Bright; Edward L. Tarpley Jr.; Phillip A. Linder; Elizabeth A. Franklin-Best
- Disposition
- Jury verdict entered November 29, 2022 on three felony counts. Sentenced May 25, 2023. Sentence commuted to time served January 20, 2025. The D.C. Circuit reportedly vacated the affected judgments and remanded on May 21, 2026. The government moved May 22, 2026 to dismiss the indictment with prejudice; Judge Amit P. Mehta deferred final disposition on May 29, 2026 and required a fuller factual explanation. No later final district-court dismissal order has been verified through July 25, 2026.
- Arrested
- January 13, 2022
- Sentenced
- May 25, 2023
Charges
- Seditious conspiracy
- Obstruction of an official proceeding
- Tampering with documents or proceedings
Sentence
18 years imprisonment and 36 months supervised release imposed May 25, 2023; sentence commuted to time served January 20, 2025. The January 27, 2025 order stated that supervision conditions would not be enforced.
Press & news
- https://apnews.com/article/ad679108ab84083694261efc101e60ea →
- https://americasvoice.news/video/jgrP61wKAyNhTQW/ →
- https://www.whitehouse.gov/presidential-actions/2025/01/granting-pardons-and-commutation-of-sentences-for-certain-offenses-relating-to-the-events-at-or-near-the-united-states-capitol-on-january-6-2021/ →
- https://www.cbsnews.com/news/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-founder-testify-january-6-committee/ →
- https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/oath-keepers-founder-sentenced-to-18-years-for-seditious-conspiracy-in-jan-6-capitol-attack →
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stewart_Rhodes →
- https://www.npr.org/2023/05/25/1178116193/stewart-rhodes-oath-keepers-verdict →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/court-sentences-two-oath-keepers-leaders-18-years-prison-seditious-conspiracy-and-other →
- https://directory.libsyn.com/episode/index/show/deathtotyrants/id/39628270 →
- https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/baa11489-3125-4452-be70-f5e213b96ed6/g-gov-uscourts-dcd-239207-967-0.pdf →
- https://www.newsweek.com/oath-keepers-trial-stewart-rhodes-founder-background-history-1746222 →
- https://www.fox4news.com/news/oath-keepers-founder-stewart-rhodes-path-from-yale-to-jail →
- https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/1199b86a-20e9-4b36-a093-6876159fa4f4/a-gov-uscourts-dcd-239207-1-0.pdf →
- https://www.justice.gov/usao-dc/pr/two-leaders-oath-keepers-found-guilty-seditious-conspiracy-and-other-charges-related-us →
- https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/d2165508-4d73-44ae-934d-1dce3b14af36/b-gov-uscourts-dcd-239207-167-0.pdf →
- https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/9f732b65-77aa-4af3-a6ed-c959f0ac8275/h-gov-uscourts-dcd-239207-976-0.pdf →
- https://www.nacdl.org/brief/United-States-v-Rhodes%2C-III%2C-et-al →
- https://www.nacdl.org/getattachment/6124ad5b-a3a8-4149-ad8d-1e44579a7108/c-gov-uscourts-dcd-239207-410-0.pdf →
- https://caselaw.findlaw.com/court/us-dis-crt-dis-col/116883497.html →
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Connection to United States v. Nichols
Stewart Rhodes appears in the record of United States v. Nichols through 13 shared documents on file below. The full case — timeline, people, documents — is public and free.
Walk the whole case →Evidence on file
13 documents on file
Court6 documents
Court orders, rulings, transcripts, and docket entries.
order · May 29, 2026
Oath Keepers Court Order Requiring Dismissal Supplement — ECF No. 976
Judge Amit P. Mehta’s May 29, 2026 order deferred a ruling on the government’s unopposed motion to dismiss and required a fuller statement of reasons and factual basis by June 5, 2026.
Readruling · May 21, 2026
D.C. Circuit Vacatur and Remand in Oath Keepers Appeals — May 21, 2026
Public case chronology and contemporaneous reporting state that the D.C. Circuit vacated the affected Oath Keepers judgments and remanded for consideration of a government dismissal request. The native appellate order remains pending capture.
Readruling · Jan 27, 2025
January 27, 2025 Supervised-Release Order
Published district-court order addressing the commutation and supervised-release conditions.
Readruling · Nov 29, 2022
Oath Keepers First-Trial Verdict Form — ECF No. 410
The jury verdict form for Stewart Rhodes, Kelly Meggs, Kenneth Harrelson, Jessica Watkins, and Thomas Caldwell, returned November 29, 2022.
Readindictment · Jun 22, 2022
Oath Keepers Superseding Indictment — ECF No. 167
The 44-page superseding indictment filed June 22, 2022 in United States v. Rhodes, III et al. It states the government’s charges and allegations; it is not a verdict.
Readindictment · Jan 12, 2022
Oath Keepers Initial Indictment — ECF No. 1
The 48-page initial indictment in United States v. Rhodes, III et al., filed January 12, 2022. The document records government allegations, not findings of guilt.
ReadGovt response4 documents
Responses from DC DOC, the U.S. Marshals, and federal agencies.
motion · May 22, 2026
Oath Keepers Unopposed Motion to Dismiss Indictment — ECF No. 967
The government’s May 22, 2026 unopposed Rule 48(a) motion asking the district court to dismiss the indictment with prejudice against eight Oath Keepers defendants.
Readorder · Jan 20, 2025
January 20, 2025 January 6 Clemency Proclamation
Presidential proclamation commuting the sentences of fourteen named January 6 defendants to time served and granting full, complete, and unconditional pardons to the other covered convicted defendants. Person-specific status must be determined from the proclamation’s two separate clemency provisions.
Readarticle · May 25, 2023
DOJ Sentencing Record: Stewart Rhodes
Official DOJ release reporting the May 25, 2023 sentence of 18 years and 36 months supervised release.
Readarticle · Nov 29, 2022
DOJ Verdict Record: United States v. Rhodes
Official DOJ release reporting the November 29, 2022 jury verdicts. Government descriptions remain attributed.
ReadNews3 documents
Press coverage.
article · Apr 14, 2026
DOJ Requests Vacatur in Oath Keepers Appeals
AP reporting on DOJ's April 14, 2026 filing requesting vacatur and remand for dismissal. The motion is not itself a ruling.
Readvideo · Jan 21, 2026
Stewart Rhodes and Ivan Raiklin on Cowboy Logic — Part 1
Real America's Voice News published a January 21, 2026 Cowboy Logic segment listing Stewart Rhodes and Ivan Raiklin as guests. The publisher listing is verified. Statements in the video remain attributed to the speakers; a native media capture and complete transcript are pending.
Readaudio · Jan 7, 2026
Stewart Rhodes on Counterflow: January 6, Legal Aftermath and Personal Consequences
Counterflow with Buck Johnson published a January 7, 2026 long-form interview with Stewart Rhodes. Publisher and podcast-catalog listings verify the episode, date, guest and approximate 88-minute runtime. Statements remain attributed to Rhodes and the host; native audio preservation, transcript review and claim-level corroboration are pending.
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