Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, founder of the Oath Keepers, will remain jailed until trial on a host of federal charges stemming from the U.S. Capitol incident on Jan. 6, 2021, a federal magistrate in Plano, Texas, ruled on Jan. 26.
Magistrate Judge Kimberly Priest Johnson agreed with federal prosecutors, who argued that there are no conditions of bail that would guarantee Rhodes’s appearance for trial and protect the public from a man charged with seditious conspiracy to disrupt the federal government and the peaceful transfer of power after the 2020 elections.
