“It is a series of acts in which you and others committed to use force, including potentially with weapons, against the government of the US as it transitioned from one president to another. ” Explaining that a seditious conspiracy is among the most serious crimes an American can commit, Mehta said“it is an offense against the government to use force and it is an offense against the people of our country”. Will we have another January 6 again? That remains to be seen. ” “I dare say we all now hold our collective breaths when an election is approaching. US district judge Amit Priyavadan Mehta, who was born in Patan in Gujarat and grew up in Maryland, outside Washington DC, lit into the far-right anti-government militia group Oath Keepers’ founder Stewart Rhodes, telling him that he and his ilk “pose an ongoing threat and peril to our democracy and the fabric of this country. WASHINGTON: A Gujarat-born Indian-American judge lambasted a Trump-supporting right wing extremist for “seditious conspiracy” against the US on Thursday before handing him an 18-year prison sentence, the harshest punishment meted out to anyone from the mob that stormed the US Capitol on January 6, 2021.
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