Oath Keepers’ Lawyer PLEADS GUILTY! SHOCKING Details on Capitol Attack

 

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Kellye SoRelle, a key attorney for the Oath Keepers, has just pleaded guilty to serious charges related to the January 6 Capitol attack. – TALKING FEDS PODCAST is a roundtable discussion that brings together prominent former government officials, journalists, and special guests for a dynamic and in-depth analysis of the most pressing questions in law and politics. New episodes every week! Listen wherever you get your podcasts. Apple Podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast... Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/show/57MG7Rv... Make sure to SUBSCRIBE!    / @talkingfeds   FOLLOW US Website: https://www.talkingfeds.com/ Twitter:   / talkingfedspod   Harry’s Twitter:   / harrylitman   Instagram:   / talkingfedspod   Facebook:   / talkingfeds   TikTok:   / talkingfedspod   SUBSCRIBE TO OUR NEWSLETTER: https://www.talkingfeds.com/contact BECOME A PATREON MEMBER:   / talkingfeds   CONTACT US Contact forms: https://www.talkingfeds.com/contact Email: talkingfedspodcast@gmail.com

Oath Keepers lawyer Kellye SoRelle pleads guilty in Jan. 6 attack

The girlfriend of Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes was charged with conspiring to obstruct the Jan. 6 joint session of Congress.

August 21, 2024 at 3:59 p.m. EDT

A lawyer for the Oath Keepers who helped organize the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol with right-wing extremist groups pleaded guilty Wednesday to obstruction of justice and entering a restricted area.

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What to know about the Oath Keepers sedition trial

• Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes was found guilty of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.
• He is accused of guiding a months-long effort to unleash politically motivated violence to prevent the swearing-in of President Biden.
• Where do things stand now? Some Oath Keepers have been convicted and others still face trial.

• Rhodes is the most high-profile person charged in the investigation so far.
• The Oath Keepers trial is the highest-profile prosecution to arise from the 2021 Capitol chaos.
• The trial is an important step in the wider probe, analysts say.

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Kellye SoRelle, 45, was indicted in 2022 on charges that she conspired with far-right militias to obstruct the joint session of Congress to confirm Joe Biden’s victory in the 2020 presidential election, and that she persuaded others to withhold or destroy records. According to court documents, she served as a go-between for Oath Keepers leader Stewart Rhodes and Henry “Enrique” Tarrio, a leader of the Proud Boys, on the eve of the Jan. 6 attack.

Unlike Rhodes and Tarrio, SoRelle was not charged with seditious conspiracy and is likely to face a lesser penalty for her role in the riot.

SoRelle pleaded guilty to a felony count of obstruction of justice for tampering with documents and a misdemeanor charge of entering restricted Capitol grounds. In exchange, prosecutors dropped the two other counts in her indictment, including conspiring to obstruct an official proceeding. The Supreme Court ruled 6-3 in June that prosecutors could not broadly apply that charge to people who attempted to derail Congress’s certification of the presidential election.

Kellye SoRelle, former general counsel for the Oath Keepers, right, and attorney Horatio Aldredge leave federal court in Washington on Wednesday. (Mark Schiefelbein/AP)

At the plea hearing Wednesday, SoRelle, who was Rhodes’s girlfriend, hesitated for several minutes when U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta asked whether she was sure she had written several encrypted texts urging other rioters to delete messages about their participation in the Jan. 6 attack. Those text messages were the basis of her felony conviction.

After a tense exchange, SoRelle admitted that she wrote at least one of the messages and that she knew Rhodes had written others.

“I don’t know that it was me typing them so much as Stewart typing them using my phone,” she told the judge. Turning to prosecutors seated behind her, she added, “But I understand it was my phone.”

Mehta last year found that SoRelle was not competent to stand trial because of an apparent mental illness and agreed to pause her case until she recuperated. The nature of the illness was not made public. In 2020, SoRelle lost a Republican primary to represent a rural district west of Fort Worth in the Texas legislature. She served as a volunteer for Lawyers for Trump later that year. The judge determined she had recovered and was able to participate in the plea hearing Wednesday.

On the day of SoRelle’s arrest in September 2022, former president Donald Trump announced that he would issue full pardons and a government apology to Capitol riot defendants if he returned to the White House. At the time, SoRelle took to Twitter (now X) and posted a defiant message: “Lesson learned. Lie, never tell the truth and comply with the lockdowns and bow to the oligarchs.”

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