Oath Keepers founder's past includes Arizona Supreme Court clerkship

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Before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes clerked for an Arizona Supreme Court justice.

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Oath Keepers founder's past includes Arizona Supreme Court clerkship
Before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes clerked for an Arizona Supreme Court justice.
9:05 AM · Sep 26, 2022

https://ktar.com/story/5262331/jailed-oath-keepers-founders-past-includes-arizona-supreme-court-clerkship/

PHOENIX (AP) — Long before he assembled one of the largest far-right anti-government militia groups in U.S. history, before his Oath Keepers stormed the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, Stewart Rhodes was a promising Yale Law School graduate.

He secured a clerkship on the Arizona Supreme Court, in part thanks to his unusual life story: a stint as an Army paratrooper cut short by a training accident, followed by marriage, college and an Ivy League law degree.

The clerkship was one more rung up from a hardscrabble beginning. But rather than fitting in, Rhodes came across as angry and aggrieved.

He railed to colleagues about how the Patriot Act, which gave the government greater surveillance powers after the Sept. 11 attacks, would erase civil liberties. He referred to Vice President Dick Cheney as a fascist for supporting the Bush administration’s use of “enemy combatant” status to indefinitely detain prisoners.

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[Hugh_Lebowski]

1. Wow. 20 years ago, me and Stewart Rhodes agreed on something

Our motives for doing so were likely different, however, which perhaps explains the great divergence that has happened hence.