A jury is set to deliberate federal seditious conspiracy charges against members of the far-right Oath Keepers organization, who prosecutors say plotted to oppose the peaceful transfer of power by force in the lead-up to Jan. 6.
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After hearing from the government last week and from the defendants' attorneys on Friday and Monday, federal prosecutors got the last word during rebuttal before the case went to the jury late Monday."They took matters out of the hands of the people, and put rifles into their own hands," Assistant U.S. Attorney Jeffrey Nestler told jurors."They claimed to wrap themselves in the Constitution. They trampled it instead.
"They are not above the law. We ask you to uphold the Constitution that they tried to subvert," Nestler said. Federal prosecutors have not proven that the Oath Keepers had an organized plan to storm the Capitol before Jan. 6. Instead they say the alleged co-conspirators agreed to oppose the peaceful transfer of presidential power, including by using force., an Oath Keeper who testified that he was ready to die to keep Trump in office, told jurors that the Oath Keepers seized the opportunity to storm the Capitol when they got the chance.
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