Far-right Trump backers on trial for Capitol riot 'sedition'
Washington (AFP) - Jury selection began Tuesday in the sedition trial of four members of the far-right Oath Keepers militia, including its founder, who joined the 2021 attack on the US Capitol. Stewart Rhodes -- the eyepatch-wearing former soldier who plotted a military-style assault on the Capitol -- and his followers are charged with taking up arms against the United States to keep Donald Trump in the White House, despite his election defeat. As the process began to find 12 jurors from over 100 candidates, Judge Amit Mehta rejected an effort by the Oath Keepers' attorneys to move the trial o...