Seditious conspiracy is a notoriously difficult charge to prove — the last successful prosecution was in 1995 — and it has a checkered history in the department. In fact, it was only after contentious internal debate that the department greenlighted the charges in Jan. 6 cases as righteous and winnable. AdvertisementThe prosecutors’ focus was always first on convicting Rhodes, and to a lesser degree Meggs, of seditious conspiracy. And the jury in this trial plainly took its duty seriously and exercised its power with meticulous attention to detail. And what future students will learn is that the trials mattered deeply because they vindicated the truth about Jan. 6, 2021.

Source: Los Angeles Times December 03, 2022 09:02 UTC