This is Interesting

The Department of Justice has has filed the an appeal to the seditious conspiracy sentences for the Oath Keepers.

Considering that the leader of said conspiracy, Stewart Rhodes, got 18 years, this was not something that I expected.

There is not much information beyond this.  The appeal is bare bones, and likely filed in order to meet the July 20 deadline.  It should be fleshed out more by the time that the appellate court hears the appeal.

U.S. prosecutors will appeal the sentences of Stewart Rhodes and all seven co-defendants sentenced to date with the founder of the extremist group Oath Keepers after two seditious conspiracy trials in the Jan. 6 attack on the U.S. Capitol, according to court filings late Wednesday.

Such government appeals are rare, and the bare-bones notices lodged ahead of a July 20 deadline with Rhodes’s trial court in Washington contained no details or legal reasoning, which an appeals court will require later.

A spokeswoman for the U.S. attorney’s office for Washington, D.C., said the filing “merely preserves our ability to appeal,” suggesting speculation about the Justice Department’s intentions was premature.

Still, the move broadly suggests disagreement with the length of sentences imposed by U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta in one of the two highest-profile prosecutions to date alleging plots to violently oppose federal authority and to obstruct the peaceful transfer of presidential power from Donald Trump to Joe Biden after the 2020 election.

Sentences imposed by Mehta in May ranged from 18 years for Rhodes — the longest for any Capitol attack defendant — to three years for two co-defendants.

The DoJ could just be keeping their options open, or they could actually try to increase the sentences.

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