Metal Anarchy

According to Blabbermouth, the U.S. government has been granted permission to share sealed materials from Iced Earth guitarist Jon Schaffer’s Capitol insurrection case. The information will be used as discovery to the three main Oath Keepers cases.

Government attorneys said the following in a court filing:

“The United States of America respectfully moves for entry by this Court of an order permitting the disclosure in discovery of materials protected by Federal Rule of Criminal Procedure 6(e). The United States also requests permission to provide in discovery in United States, Thomas Caldwell, et. al., sealed materials related to the above-captioned case, pursuant to the previously entered protective order governing discovery. Finally, the United States requests that any order granting this motion be made applicable to co-defendants who may later be joined. The United States is authorized to represent to the Court that Defendant [Schaffer] does not oppose this motion or the entry of the attached order. Wherefore, the United States respectfully requests an order authorizing the disclosure in discovery of the materials described above.”

Blabbermouth also added:

“U.S. District Court Judge Amit Mehta granted the motion to disclose materials from the Schaffer case in the case against Stewart Rhodes, the founder and leader of the right-wing Oath Keepers extremist group, and several of his deputies, who were charged with seditious conspiracy for their role in the U.S. Capitol Riot. That indictment, which was unsealed last week, alleges Rhodes and his co-defendants brought small arms to the Washington, D.C. area; engaged in combat training to prepare for the attack; and made plans to stage quick-reaction forces to support insurrectionists.”

This news comes after District of Columbia Attorney General Karl Racine recently filed a lawsuit against Schaffer and 30 other members of the Oath Keepers and Proud Boys for “conspiring to terrorize the District” as part of “a coordinated act of domestic terrorism.”