Sedition Defendants Say No Proof of Plan for U.S. Capitol Breach

Members of the right-wing Oath Keepers militia group charged with sedition after the Jan. 6 storming of the U.S. Capitol urged a judge to toss out the most significant criminal case stemming from the attack.

A “mountain” of evidence handed over by the government doesn’t appear to contain “one iota of proof” that there was a plan to breach the Capitol last year, a defense lawyer said in a Tuesday motion to dismiss the charges. All 11 defendants in the case are set for trial in July.

Prosecutors have allowed defense attorneys to sift through tens of thousands of seized ...