It’s around 8:45 a.m. on Monday, Oct. 3, and I’m in an elevator at the E. Barrett Prettyman courthouse, squeezed between a federal prosecutor and defense counsel for a far-right paramilitary leader.
The elevator isn’t particularly crowded with people. But we’re packed in there anyway, because the prosecutor has luggage.
He is transporting a comically large exhibit poster to Courtroom 23, where the defense attorney’s client, Elmer Stewart Rhodes III, is set to stand trial for seditious conspiracy.
As we ascend to the fourth floor, the prosecutor looks over at his opposing counsel and gestures toward the exhibit poster, which appears to be a kind of “Who’s Who” of right-wing insurrectionists—a visual aid to help jurors remember the names, faces, and c
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