Oath Keepers Founder Secretly Backed Lawsuit for Government Based on 'Lord Of The Rings' [View all]

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SCOOP: Oath Keepers militia members, including founder Stewart Rhodes, continued efforts to overthrow the Biden administration after Jan. 6. They joined a lawsuit that sought to install a government based on The Lord of The Rings. Me @thedailybeast

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Oath Keepers Founder Secretly Backed Lawsuit for Government Based on ‘Lord Of The Rings’
Lawyers for the founder of the Oath Keepers are arguing their client stopped trying to overturn the election after Jan. 6. That’s not exactly true.
7:20 AM · Feb 18, 2022

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After the violent Capitol insurrection failed on Jan. 6, Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes had another idea for overturning the election—a truly epic one.

While Rhodes’ lawyers have claimed the leader of the far-right militia group did “precisely nothing” after his insurrection dreams were dashed, new details obtained by The Daily Beast reveal that isn’t quite accurate.

According to a source with inside knowledge of the case, just days after Jan. 6, Rhodes and multiple militia members joined a federal lawsuit seeking to overturn the 2020 election.
Unfortunately for Rhodes and his compatriots, the lawsuit he signed on to was, in a word, “insane.” It went off the rails almost as soon as it hit the courts, with the lead attorney citing The Lord of the Rings as legal precedent.

Eventually, the case dissolved amid a sea of ridicule. But it didn’t start out that way.

The full scope of the Oath Keeper’s shadow legal effort, largely spearheaded by the group’s then-general counsel Kellye SoRelle, stretched back well before the riot, according to multiple people involved. In fact, it ran on a parallel track alongside the paramilitary-style buildup that has defined the militia’s role, and it roped in a number of key Jan. 6 figures along the way—including people tied to the Proud Boys and First Amendment Praetorians.

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