A federal judge on Monday issued an arrest warrant for a neo-Nazi podcaster who promoted and attended a white nationalist rally in Virginia that erupted in violence three years ago. U.S. District Judge Norman Moon said Texas resident Robert “Azzmador” Ray has been in “total disregard” of court orders in a lawsuit against him and other far-right extremists and groups associated with the August 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. Moon agreed to hold Ray in civil contempt of court and ordered him to be arrested and brought to Virginia, where the judge said Ray would be jailed until he is questioned under oath by attorneys for the lawsuit’s plaintiffs. The court ordered Ray to appear on a video conference earlier Monday for a deposition by plaintiffs’ lawyers. It was the third time he has failed to show up for a deposition. “Unfortunately, Mr. Ray has not seen fit to appear today as ordered or has taken any steps at all to comply,” the judge said. “I see no alternative but to issue a bench warrant for Mr. Ray’s arrest.”
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