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

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

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,

Within hours, the Justice Department – which under the Biden administration had secured Rhodes' 2022 conviction – argued that Judge Amit Mehta didn't have the authority to issue that restriction. Trump commuted Rhodes' 18-year sentence Monday along with the sentences of 13 other defendants.

The order comes just days after Oath Keeper leader Stewart Rhodes was seen in the Capitol meeting with GOP lawmakers and petitioning the release of Oath Keepers still incarcerated on separate charges.

The founder of the right-wing 'Oath Keepers' militia, who himself was recently had his 18-year- prison sentence commuted, appeared outside of D.C.'s Central Det

Stewart Rhodes and Enrique Tarrio, who received some of longest sentences for the US Capitol attack, freed from prison.

Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, and Enrique Tarrio, former leader of the Proud Boys, have been released from prison after their lengthy sentences for seditious conspiracy in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.

Rhodes was serving an 18-year sentence for a seditious conspiracy conviction for his role in the Jan. 6 riots, but his sentence was commuted by Trump on Monday. Rhodes told ABC News he was meeting with members of Congress, specifically Rep. Gus Bilirakis, R-Fla. Speaker Mike Johnson told ABC News that he didn't meet with Rhodes.

President Donald Trump's pardons of those convicted in the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the U.S. Capitol is raising concern among attorneys, former federal investigators and experts who follow extremism.

Extensive clemency for the January 6 Capitol protesters could erode public trust and prompt legal reforms US Senator Lindsey Graham says