bench. we ll talk about that just ahead. i want to get straight to cnn s senior legal affairs correspondent, paul reach, with the latest on the charges against the leader of the oath keepers and ten other people. the justice department today escalating its efforts to prosecute those responsible for january 6th, charging oath keepers leader stewart rhodes, along with ten others, with seditious conspiracy leading to the attack on the capitol. it s the first time prosecutors have used the sedition charge after bringing ever 700 cases related to the insurrection. prosecutors have long signaled they considered using the rarely applied section of federal law. rhodes is the most high-profile individual charged in the investigation so far. court documents filed today 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
you re believing is bs. for some reason i had an image walking with caw boy boots talking about i m the law in these parts. that was my immediate image. you know what? think about it. the problem is it was never about what common sense and logical. that s the frustrating part. it was never about that. because you know it was going to be spun. now suddenly it s going to be a criticism of this doj being political, and that wasn t the case before for the prior doj and attorney general. it s sometimes i think the point is to frustrate, and so the arguments come out, don, they re like, well here s the explanation for why this is. i might think, you know, the point is to frustrate because logic has shown its face since january 7th. yes. but today with the charges from these are the proud boys or the oath keepers, right? the oath keepers. these are the oath keepers. i don t think there are oath keepers blm and antifa and so on and so forth. they actually criticized them as
and so forth. i think they called them marxist. the person who is the leader has been outspoken on that very issue, which you know is not the case. but he doesn t even have lawyers. i was talking to his committee lawyer, but not the actual criminal lawyer. he does not yet have one. i m wondering if he ll get the rittenhouse treatment in terms of funding to see who really does have his back. we shall see. i ve got images of annie oakley. laura oakley. that s it. thank you, laura. i ll see you tomorrow. oh, god. goodbye. have a good one. so everyone, thank you for joining us. this is don lemon tonight. so what we have been talking about just now is called seditious conspiracy. seditious conspiracy. sedition. you guys know what that is. it s a chilling charge. the u.s. code charges sedition as two or more people who conspired to overthrow the u.s. government or, quote, prevent, hinder, or delay the execution of u.s. law by force. two or more people who conspire to over
A chilling charge. the doj filing seditious conspiracy charges against the leader of the far-right extremist group the oath keepers and ten others. what may be the final nail in the coffin for voting rights legislation tonight. i hope we can get this done. the honest to god answer is, i don t know whether we can get this done. the daughter of dr. martin luther king jr. joins me to talk about it just ahead. do three unpaid speeding tickets amount to a rap sheet? on the eve of his hearing, it has been made public that he has a rap sheet with a laundry list of citations. stereotyping much? that s a u.s. senator leveling those loaded charges against a black nominee for the federal
The coffin for voting rights legislation tonight. i hope we can get this done. the honest to god answer is i don t know whether we can get this done. the daughter of martin luther king jr. joins me to talk about it just ahead. and do three unpaid speeding tickets amount to a rap sheet? on the eve of his hearing, it has been made public that he has a rap sheet with a laundry list of citations. stereotyping much? that s a u.s. senator leveling those loaded charges against a black nominee for the federal bench. we ll talk about that just ahead. i want to get straight to cnn s senior legal affairs koernts paula reid. she has the latest on the charges against the leader of the oath keepers and ten other people. reporter: the justice dent today escalating its efforts to prosecute those responsible for january 6th. charging oath keepers leader stewart rhodes, along with ten others, with seditious