vaccine mandate. let s go out front. good evening, i m erin burnett. out front tonight the justice department charging 11 people with seditious conspiracy. it is a charge rarely used. the 11 people include stewart rose, the leader of the far right extremist group the oath keepers. this is a major move in the investigation and the indictment is damning, right? it s 48 pages here. i m going through here. rhoades indictment. it details prior planning, use of military tactics, stash of weapons and they stored weapons outside of washington. it s really shocking the level of planning here. so used to a certain chorus of people saying it got out of hand on the fly and there were bad actors out there. when you get to page 4, this really stood out to me. page 4, rhoades and certain co-conspirator planned to stop the lawful transfer of power which applied multiple force. and we re prepared to answer rhoades call to take up arms. some co conspirators amass beinged firearms distri
communications to coordinate actions leading up to january 6. and prosecutors say rhodes was planning for violence well beyond january 6. they say in the week after the attack, on the capitol, he spend more than $17,000 on weapons and equipment and ammunition and before inauguration day he tried to organize local militia to oppose by force the transfer of power. ed lavendera joins us from plano, texas, outside of the courthouse. what will we see. reporter: well stewart rhodes is scheduled to appear in the next hour. it is a brief hearing for his initial appearance. the day after stuart rhodes was arrested in a suburb of the dallas-fort worth area and according to the 48 page indictment he is facing five criminal charges including that most serious carnal of seditious conspiracy and federal prosecutors are saying that rhodes and others spearheaded an attempt to oppose the peaceful transfer of presidential power and plotting to prevent this transfer of power using force. in
was across the board. he had hoped to succeed to implement this for all businesses with more than 100 employees. the court did allow the vaccine tests and mandates to stand for healthcare workers to go into effect because they are federally funded but this was really just icing on the cake of what looks like the worst week yet for the biden white house. jen psaki acknowledging this loss but saying now they hope that companies and not the federal government will take it upon themselves to decide how they want to handle covid and the policies that they implement. the supreme court s decision on the osha mandate essentially means that the pandemic is up to individual employers to determine whether their workplaces will be safe for employees and whether their businesses will be safe for consumers. at least one republican senator suggesting that the white house may be glad to be out of this potentially losing battle for them. watch this. there might be some secret sighs of r
democratic senators tripled down on their opposition to senate changes that would be neededs to pass the bill. first the u.s. supreme court and what the decision means for the president and the nation. fox news chief legal correspondent and anchor of fox news at night shannon bream joins us now. good evening, shannon. hello, bret, in that pair of split decisions the supreme court handed the biden administration both a major loss and a smaller victory. in blocking a workplace vaccine mandate that would have impacted more than 80 million american workers 6-3. supreme court held when it comes to osha congress, quote: had not given that agency the power to regulate public health more broadly requiring the vaccination of 84 million americans selected simply because they worked for employers with more than 100 employees certainly falls in the latter category. that means the federal vaccine mandate, as well as the masking and testing option cannot be enforced. the joint dissent wa
cnn s paula reid has details on the justice department s investigation. reporter: the justice department today escalating its efforts to prosecute those responsible for january 6th, charging oath keepers leader stewart rhodes with seditious conspiracy. it s the first time prosecutors have used the sedition charge after bringing more than 700 cases related to the insurrection. prosecutors have said they were considering using the rarely applied section of federal law. rhodes is the most high profile in the investigation so far. court documents lay out a wide-ranging plot to storm the capitol and disrupt the certification of the 2020 election. two days after election day, rhodes allegedly urged his followers to refuse to accept the election results writing in a signal message, we aren t getting through this without a civil war. according to federal prosecutors on his way to d.c. on january 3rd, rhodes allegedly bought an ar platform rifle and sights, mounts, triggers, slings