From: bruce2bowser@gmail.com   
      
   On Saturday, October 1, 2022 at 5:20:49 PM UTC-4, Rudy Canoza wrote in   
   alt.fan.rush-limbaugh:   
   > WASHINGTON, Sept 29 (Reuters) - A jury was seated on Thursday in the criminal   
   > trial of Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and four associates over their   
   > alleged roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol, paving the way   
   > for prosecutors to make opening statements.   
   >   
   > Opening arguments in the case are expected to begin on Monday. The jury,   
   which   
   > consists of seven women and nine men, will have 12 members plus four   
   alternates.   
   >   
   > Jury members include federal employees from the departments of State and   
   > Homeland Security, a youth center worker, a defense contractor and a   
   healthcare   
   > consultant.   
   >   
   > Most of the jurors told the court they have not extensively tracked news   
   > coverage of the 2021 attack, in which then-President Donald Trump's   
   supporters   
   > stormed the Capitol in a failed bid to block Congress from certifying   
   Democrat   
   > Joe Biden's 2020 election victory.   
   >   
   > Trump falsely claimed the election had been stolen from him through   
   widespread   
   > fraud. Five people died during and shortly after the riot and about 140   
   police   
   > were injured.   
   >   
   > The trial marks the most high-profile prosecution so far in the Justice   
   > Department's investigation into the deadly attack. The Oath Keepers are a   
   > far-right, anti-government militia that is mostly made up of current and   
   former   
   > U.S. military and law enforcement personnel.   
   >   
   > Rhodes and his co-defendants Kelly Meggs, Thomas Caldwell, Jessica Watkins   
   and   
   > Kenneth Harrelson are the first people in more than 10 years to face federal   
   > charges of seditious conspiracy under a Civil War-era statute that is rarely   
   > prosecuted and carries a maximum sentence of 20 years in prison.   
   >   
   > Seditious conspiracy is defined as two or more people plotting "to overthrow,   
   > put down or to destroy by force the government of the United States."   
   >   
   > In addition to seditious conspiracy, the five accused Oath Keeper defendants   
   > also face charges of conspiring to obstruct and of obstructing an official   
   > proceeding, which carries a sentence of up to 20 years in prison, and   
   conspiring   
   > to prevent an officer from discharging duties.   
   >   
   > https://www.reuters.com/legal/jury-is-selected-oath-keepers-ca   
   itol-riot-trial-2022-09-29/   
   >   
   > Rhodes and his fellow seditious insurrectionists need to be Epsteined in   
   jail.   
      
   Marjorie and Ghislaine, huh?   
      
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