National Media Seek Professor Larson's Insights on 'Oath Keeper' Indictment

Professor Carlton F. W. Larson weighed in for the national media about the Jan. 13 grand jury indictment of members of the “Oath Keepers” for seditious conspiracy related to the Jan. 6, 2021 insurrection at the U.S. Capitol.

Larson wrote a Jan. 15 piece for The Atlantic headlined “Seditious Conspiracy Was the Right Charge for the January 6 Organizers.” He also spoke to the Associated Press for piece published the same day about the potential legal risks of the case against the Oath Keepers, telling the AP, “This is as good a case as you could bring.”

On Jan. 17, Larson explained the crime of seditious conspiracy on the nationally syndicated news show First Light.

Carlton Larson's research interests focus on constitutional law and legal history. One of the nation’s leading authorities on the law of treason, Professor Larson is the author of the ABA Silver Gavel Award finalist books The Trials of Allegiance: Treason, Juries, and the American Revolution (Oxford University Press, 2019) and On Treason: A Citizen’s Guide to the Law (Ecco/HarperCollins, 2020).