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Robert Gehrke: A lawsuit may show inner workings of Ammon Bundy’s flourishing extremist group

A lawyer in the case says it’s not just about Ammon Bundy shutting down St. Luke’s Hospital, but ’... the kind of structure he’s built with the People’s Rights Network.’

(Darin Oswald | Idaho Statesman via AP, file photo) Ammon Bundy glances toward the prosecution table during a pause in his trial to clarify a line of questioning with the jury dismissed in Ada County Magistrate Judge Kim Dale's courtroom on March 15, 2022, in Boise, Idaho. A jury on Monday, July 24, 2023, awarded an Idaho hospital more than $50 million in damages in a defamation case the institution brought against far-right activist Ammon Bundy and others.