The purported founder of a Southern California militant supremacist group must remain behind bars for now, with the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals determining that a federal judge who ordered him released wrongly determined he wasn’t potentially dangerous or a flight risk.
The appellate judges, in a written order released this week, overruled U.S. District Judge Cormac J. Carney’s decision to release Robert Rundo, the Huntington Beach man accused of founding the Rise Above Movement and recruiting...