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A federal judge expressed confusion and surprise at the Department of Justice's defense for a convicted Jan. 6er.

In a Tuesday ruling, U.S. District Judge Amit Mehta, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, called out the DOJ's defense of its move to clear a group of convicted January 6 rioters whose sentences President Donald Trump had commuted.

Mehta granted the DOJ's request to dismiss the indictment against eight members of the Oath Keepers, including Stewart Rhodes, the group's founder, but made it clear he found the government's reasoning baffling and did so only because the law left him no choice....

MAGA California Governor candidate and Riverside County Sheriff Chad Bianco got into a clash on Saturday night when he was asked about his ties to the far-right Oath Keepers militia, with the GOP gubernatorial hopeful appearing visibly angry over the line of questioning.

Bianco joined The Weekend: Primetime to discuss his past and current run for office when the back-and-forth heated up. Bianco's campaign has focused on law and order, and co-host Elise Jordan pressed him to discuss the Oath Keepers, which have been described by experts and watchdog organizations as extremists and an anti-government group with people who often believe in conspiracy theories.

"There were Oath Keepers present at the insurrection on January 6th, at the Unite the Right rally in Charlottesville years ago," Jordan said. "And just a few days ago, you told CNN that you were very proud of your past affiliation with the Oath Keepers. If you're so proud, why aren't you still involved with them?"...

A GOP candidate for California governor proudly stood by his past ties to the Oath Keepers, a far-right American militia that was involved in the January 6 Capitol riots.

"You're an Oath Keeper. We all know that," former Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said while railing against Republican Chad Bianco, the Sheriff for Riverside County.

Rather than distance himself from the group, Bianco leaned in, saying, "I'm very proud of it."...

Rep Jamie Raskin (D-MD) unleashed on the GOP for pandering to tech "broligarchs" and using immigration as a smokescreen to distract from President Trump's actions since he took the oath of office Monday.

In his statement during Wednesday's hearing on immigration enforcement, Raskin slammed the House GOP for enabling Trump's stunts by promoting "tiny little messaging bills" that accomplished nothing.

Raskin began, "All these fine speeches and all these fancy parties with billionaires and congressmen in tuxedos, all these executive orders for big oil and the tech 'broligarchs,' and these pardons for Proud Boys, Oath Keepers and violent extremists who chanted, 'Hang Mike Pence!' and smashed and wounded our police officers in this building with steel poles, baseball bats and confederate flags. All this sound and fury on day one and week one, but nothing to bring down grocery prices or nothing to bring down the cost of rent as they promised, nothing to improve our health care system or build on our success in the last Congress in reducing prescription drug prices, nothing to get health insurance coverage for millions of people who don't have it, nothing to bring down the cost of housing or build new housing, nothing to combat the nightmare of climate change other than the full-scale retreat of withdrawing from the Paris Climate Accord, nothing to address the real problems faced by the American people."...

CHICAGO — Dakota Adams is not your typical Democratic delegate.

First, there’s the superficial: His long, blond hair hangs loose about his shoulder. The 27-year-old wears eye liner, and a metal dumbbell through the bridge of his nose between his eyebrows, and black nail polish. He wears a denim vest over a black T-shirt and nearly matching black parachute pants. His tennis shoes are spattered with white house paint.

More notably is what lies deeper: Adams’ father, Stewart Rhodes, founded the Oath Keepers, a militia group instrumental in helping President Donald Trump attempt to maintain his grip on power after losing the 2020 election. Rhodes is currently serving an 18-year prison sentence for seditious conspiracy for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol....

A Jan. 6 defendant who has been the target of conspiracy theories was sentenced to one year of probation on Tuesday.

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg decided Ray Epps would serve one year of probation after Department of Justice prosecutors asked for six months of jail time. Epps was one of the first Jan. 6 defendants to breach the Capitol perimeter on the day of the riot.

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