Stewart Rhodes, founder of the extremist group Oath Keepers, has been sentenced to 18 years in prison for orchestrating a plot that led to his followers attacking the US Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, in an attempt to prevent President Joe Biden from taking office. Rhodes is the first person charged in the attack to be sentenced for seditious conspiracy, and his sentence is the longest handed down so far. The Justice Department has sought to prove that the riot by right-wing extremists was not a spur-of-the-moment protest but the culmination of weeks of plotting to overturn Biden’s election victory.

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