{"id":60712,"date":"2026-04-19T10:12:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:12:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=60712"},"modified":"2026-04-19T10:12:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-19T14:12:05","slug":"doj-moves-to-undo-jan-6-rioters-convictions-for-seditious-conspiracy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/?p=60712","title":{"rendered":"DOJ moves to undo Jan. 6 rioters\u2019 convictions for seditious conspiracy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><!--more--><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-60713\" src=\"http:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-10.10.44-AM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"516\" height=\"479\" srcset=\"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-10.10.44-AM.png 516w, https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/Screenshot-2026-04-19-at-10.10.44-AM-300x278.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 516px) 100vw, 516px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>By Salvador Rizzo,\u00a0 Jeremy Roebuck and\u00a0 Perry Stein<\/p>\n<div class=\"meteredContent grid-center\">\n<div class=\"teaser-content\">\n<div class=\"wpds-c-PJLV article-body type-text\" data-qa=\"article-body\">\n<p class=\"wpds-c-heFNVF wpds-c-heFNVF-iPJLV-css overrideStyles font-copy\" dir=\"null\" data-apitype=\"text\" data-contentid=\"EWN4NOHGFBCAZNBNYJD3KNH6W4\" data-el=\"text\">Federal prosecutors are seeking to wipe out the seditious conspiracy convictions of 12 members of the Proud Boys and Oath Keepers who helped plan the Jan. 6, 2021, riots and led the charge into the U.S. Capitol, according to court documents filed Tuesday.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>____<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/14\/january-6-convictions-seditious-conspiracy\/\">https:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national-security\/2026\/04\/14\/january-6-convictions-seditious-conspiracy\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-60712","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60712","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=60712"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60712\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":60714,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/60712\/revisions\/60714"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=60712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=60712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stateofthenation.info\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=60712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}