Oathkeeper Founder Faces Disbarment
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The Montana Supreme Court recommended that Stuart Rhodes be disbarred. They feel there’s at least one oath he hasn’t kept.
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Rhodes founded the Oath Keepers, a loosely organized group of current and former law enforcement and military officials, in 2009. The group pledges to defy any government mandate they view as unconstitutional. But Rhodes, a Yale Law School graduate, has apparently shirked his responsibilities as an attorney as he’s helped the Oath Keepers raise their national profile in recent years.
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A panel of the Montana Supreme Court’s Commission on Practice recommended that Rhodes be disbarred in an Oct. 26 filing. The panel cited two ethics complaints filed against Rhodes, as well as his repeated failure to appear before the panel or respond to its communications, as evidence of “a knowing and intentional disregard of his obligations as an attorney, to the profession and to the public.”
…According to the filing, U.S. District Court Judge David Campbell filed an ethics complaint with the Montana Supreme Court in April 2014 alleging that Rhodes improperly filed an appearance in his Arizona court without a license.
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