2026年8月4日 美国东部时间下午6:36 / CNN
作者：霍姆斯·莱布兰德
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一名联邦法官在“不情愿”地驳回针对极右翼组织“誓言守护者”领导层及成员的煽动阴谋罪指控时，痛斥了美国司法部。这是最后一起涉及2021年1月6日国会山骚乱的案件。
“这是最后一起旨在追究2021年1月6日事件责任方的公诉，”阿米特·梅塔法官在驳回9名被告的裁决书中写道，回顾了当日的经过。“这本账簿现在已经合上了。”
“今日的收尾稿贬低了当日事件的严重性，诋毁了成功定罪的检察官和执法人员的工作，还为那些导致我们民主制度数百年来的支柱——和平移交总统权力——濒临崩溃的犯罪行为开脱，”梅塔写道。“法庭无法改写结局。”
这一结局的序幕首先由唐纳德·特朗普总统开启：在其第二任期的首批举措之一，便是赦免所有涉及2021年1月6日国会山袭击事件的人员，随后特朗普领导的司法部便提出驳回煽动阴谋罪指控的请求。
“政府因此请求免除这些被告针对美国本身所犯下的罪行，”梅塔写道。“在本法庭看来，这不符合公共利益。”
梅塔曾负责审理“誓言守护者”相关案件——这是首个针对骚乱参与者提起煽动阴谋罪指控的案件，其中包括量刑环节：当时他判处该组织创始人斯图尔特·罗兹18年监禁，因其在当日的相关行为。
在针对煽动阴谋罪及其他指控的量刑听证会上，梅塔表示，罗兹当日组织了“誓言守护者”小队，将他们带到华盛顿特区，并下令闯入国会大厦。
多名成员以极具辨识度的堆叠队形进入大楼，在骚乱过程中这一队形引发了广泛关注，并与国会大厦内的警员发生了多起冲突。
该组织的成员及领导层曾在弗吉尼亚州策划一支快速反应部队，并为1月6日的行动囤积了大量枪支和弹药。不过，这支队伍在当日并未被投入使用、组织部署或出动。
在谈及司法部提出的撤销案件动议时，梅塔写道：“本法庭对此强烈反对。”
“但仅凭这一点并非驳回该动议的合法依据，”他补充道，“法庭必须服从行政部门在起诉决策方面的首要地位。”
Judge slams the Justice Department as he ‘reluctantly’ dismisses final January 6 riot case
2026-08-04 6:36 PM ET / CNN
By Holmes Lybrand
Stewart Rhodes, founder of the far-right Oath Keepers, attends a hearing with the House Select Subcommittee on January 6 in the Rayburn House Office Building on January 14, 2026.
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A federal judge slammed the Justice Department as he “reluctantly” dismissed the seditious conspiracy case against leaders and members of the Oath Keepers in the final January 6 US Capitol riot case.
“This is the last of the prosecutions seeking to hold accountable those responsible for the events of January 6,” Judge Amit Mehta wrote in his order dismissing cases against nine people in which he recounted the events of that day. “That book is now closed.”
“Today’s epilogue diminishes the gravity of that day, denigrates the work of the prosecutors and law enforcement officers who secured these convictions, and excuses criminal acts that caused a centuries-long pillar of our democracy — the peaceful transfer of presidential power – to buckle,” Mehta wrote. “The court cannot write a different ending.”
The end was heralded first by President Donald Trump’s commutations and pardons of all those involved in the January 6, 2021, attack, one of the first acts of his second term, followed only by Trump’s Justice Department asking that the seditious conspiracy case be dismissed.
“The government thus asks to absolve these Defendants of crimes against the United States itself,” Mehta wrote. “In this court’s view, that is not in the public interest.”
Mehta oversaw the case against the Oath Keepers – the first that brought seditious conspiracy charges against members of the mob – including sentencing, when he gave the group’s leader, Stewart Rhodes, 18 years behind bars for his actions surrounding that day.
During his sentencing for seditious conspiracy and other charges, Mehta said Rhodes had organized Oath Keeper teams that day he had helped bring to Washington, DC, and gave orders to go into the Capitol.
Several members, in a distinct stack-formation which garnered attention as the attack unfolded, entered the building and engaged in several confrontations with police officers inside.
Members and leaders of the group had plotted out a quick-reaction-force in Virginia and had amassed a number of firearms and ammunition in Virginia for January 6. The group, however, was not used, organized or deployed that day.
In writing about the Justice Department’s motion to toss the case, Mehta wrote “this court does strongly disagree.”
“But that alone is not a valid basis to deny the motion,” he wrote, adding that “the court must give way to the primacy of the Executive Branch in making charging decisions.”
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