Stewart Rhodes, founder of the Oath Keepers, at a rally outside the White House on June 25, 2017.
Oath Keepers founder Stewart Rhodes has tested positive for the coronavirus in jail, his lawyers said, potentially delaying by a week or longer his trial on a seditious conspiracy charge stemming from the Jan. 6, 2021, attack on the Capitol.

The Post’s Tom Jackman and Spencer S. Hsu report that U.S. District Judge Amit P. Mehta on Monday morning recessed the trial for Rhodes and four others for the day. Monday would have been the start of the fourth week of testimony for the trial in Washington. Per our colleagues:

Rhodes’s defense team said he could waive his in-person presence at trial and participate by videoconference during what the U.S. Marshals Service told them was a mandatory five-day quarantine preventing his transport to court under health protocols.

Mehta required Rhodes’s approval, however, and his attorneys said officials at the Alexandria City Jail told them that he was in “total isolation” and that they had been unable to speak with him and would be unable to do so before Monday afternoon.