In a 20-page filing, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes complained that his previous attorneys hadn't mounted an aggressive enough defense and had left him without complete access to the evidence Rhodes intends to present at trial. Read the full story:
The founder of the far-right Oath Keepers fired his attorneys on Tuesday, just a few weeks before he’s slated to go on trial for seditious conspiracy over his group’s alleged involvement in the breach of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021., Stewart Rhodes complained that his previous attorneys, Phil Linder and Lee Bright, had not mounted an aggressive enough defense and had left him without complete access to the evidence Rhodes intends to present at trial.
Prosecutors have portrayed him as the ringleader of a sprawling conspiracy to prevent the transition of power to Joe Biden, encouraging Trump to invoke the Insurrection Act to seize voting machines and to deputize the Oath Keepers as a state-sanctioned force to help him remain in power. The indictment of Rhodes and eight others facing seditious conspiracy charges indicated that the group amassed heavy weapons at a hotel in Arlington, Va. but never deployed them.
Rhodes, who can be seen in video from Jan. 6 speaking to others outside the Capitol but does not appear to have entered the building himself, is also demanding access to several transcripts held by the Jan. 6 select committee detailing interviews of witnesses connected to the Oath Keepers. Rhodes argued that the arrest of SoRelle and others on the periphery of the Oath Keepers group presented an enormous hurdle to his defense, limiting the availability of a potential witness in his favor.
“Rhodes has not heard from his attorneys in over three weeks. Rhodes has not been visited by his attorneys in almost two months. Rhodes has called his prior attorneys repeatedly but they do not answer,” Tarpley wrote.
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