28 Sep 2022

Trial of US far-right group 'Oath Keepers' set to get underway

From Morning Report, 6:16 am on 28 September 2022

One of the most high-profile trials from the US Capitol riots is about to get underway.

Members of the Oath Keepers, a far-right militia group, will be tried after jury selection on charges of seditious conspiracy, a rare offence from the Civil War era.

Authorities allege the group formed a weeks-long plot to violently stop the transfer of presidential power from election-denier Donald Trump to Joe Biden in 2020.

Washington correspondent Kate Fisher spoke to Guyon Espiner.