President Trump pardoned and commuted the sentences of 1,500 Jan. 6 insurrectionists. Among them is Stewart Rhodes, the founder of the right-wing extremist group Oathkeepers.

After the Justice Department says Trump wanted all conditions on sentences ended, a federal judge eliminates post-trial supervision for all the Oath Keepers’ leaders.

The move, in effect, validated the far-right leader’s defiant claim that his criminal prosecution was a kind of political persecution.