The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.

The travel restrictions placed on eight Jan. 6 defendants whose sentences were commuted by President Trump will not be enforced, a federal judge ordered Monday. The big picture: The group contains some of the most notorious names charged in the attack,

Ed Martin, a longtime advocate for Jan. 6 defendants recently named to run the prosecutors’ office, sought to undo a judge’s order barring Stewart Rhodes from visiting Washington.

A federal judge on Friday barred Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and seven other members of the right-wing extremist group from entering Washington, D.C., without the court’s permission,

A judge on Monday dropped restrictions on Stewart Rhodes, the former leader of the far-right Oath Keepers freed after being sentenced over the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the Capitol, and some others in the group from entering the U.

Ed Martin, President Trump’s new U.S. attorney in Washington, came to the aid of the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes. Mr. Rhodes had been sentenced to 18 years for his role in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.