Washington, September 11 (RHC)-- The U.S. Justice Department has charged two leaders of a white supremacist group, alleging they plotted to assassinate at least one U.S. senator and a district court judge. 

Dallas Humber of Elk Grove, California, and Matthew Allison of Boise, Idaho, each face 15 counts of soliciting hate crimes and providing material support to terrorism. 

Kristen Clarke, shead of the Justice Department’s Civil Rights Division, spoke with reporters: “The defendants’ goal, the indictment charges, was to ignite a race war, accelerate the collapse of what they viewed as an irreparably corrupt government and bring about a white ethno-state.”