As the founder of a Florida-based neo-Nazi group goes on trial for conspiring to attack Maryland’s power grid, his abhorrent beliefs aren’t really the point, federal prosecutors said Tuesday. They said it is his willingness to act on those beliefs that jurors must consider during the trial,

The white supremacist and neo-Nazi beliefs of a Florida man accused of plotting to destroy Baltimore’s power grid are not up for debate in federal court over the next two weeks, a prosecutor and defense attorney agreed at the outset of his trial Tuesday.

The trial for a man charged in an alleged plot​ to destroy the power grid in the Baltimore region in furtherance of his neo-Nazi beliefs.