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When Extremists Stormed the Capitol and Got Convicted of Seditious Conspiracy
By Jason Schultz, LawFare blog (Jan. 20, 2021)
Schultz’s article describes the attack on March 1, 1954, on the U.S. Capitol by four Puerto Rican nationalist terrorists who shot and injured five congressmen. The four shooters and thirteen other members of the Nationalist Party of Puerto Rico (PNPR) were indicted on charges of seditious conspiracy. All were convicted—four by guilty pleas, thirteen at trial. In the 1970s, President Carter commuted the remaining sentences of the four assailants.
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