The newly freed founder of the anti-government group the Oath Keepers stood outside the D.C. jail early Tuesday, awaiting the release of Jan. 6 defendants after President Donald Trump issued sweeping pardons,

The return of battle-hardened leaders ... will further radicalize and fuel recruitment platforms,” said Jacob Ware, a Council on Foreign Relations research fellow.

Four years after they raided the Capitol and assaulted police officers, a group of some of the most violent Jan. 6 rioters are now free men.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of Oath Keepers, showed up at President Donald Trump's rally in Las Vegas days after being released from prison.

WASHINGTON ― Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing militia group Oath Keepers whose prison sentence ... at a federal prison in Cumberland, Maryland prior to his release.

Rhodes was released from a Maryland prison a day earlier. Mehta also barred other Oath Keepers members who were convicted of seditious conspiracy for participating in a violent plot to attack the ...

Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes, the far-right extremist group leader convicted of seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack, has visited Capitol Hill after President Donald Trump commuted his 18-year prison sentence.

The order applies to Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes and three other Army veterans also convicted for their roles in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack.

Stewart Rhodes, the former head of the Oath Keepers militia, was among Jan. 6 inmates freed under President Trump's pardons and commutations.

A judge barred the Oath Keepers founder from Washington, D.C., without court approval after Trump commuted his prison sentence for the Capitol riot.

Rhodes was convicted by a federal jury of sedition conspiracy in connection with the attack on the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021. President Trump pardoned him on Monday.