Oath Keepers founder Rhodes requests leniency in sedition case sentencing.

Attorneys for Stewart Rhodes, founder of the right-wing extremist group Oath Keepers, have asked a judge to sentence him to time served or roughly 16 months behind bars, citing his military service and the group's community involvement. Federal prosecutors have sought a 25-year prison term for Rhodes for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol attack. Rhodes and eight followers face sentencing later this month. Prosecutors have called for "swift and severe" punishment, saying Rhodes's group's actions went far beyond the scope and magnitude of any other Jan. 6 defendants sentenced so far.