A retired teacher was sentenced on Wednesday to five years in prison after admitting that his angry voicemails to U.S. District Judge and Federalist Society member Wendy Berger amounted to threats. Berger, appointed by then-president Trump, had dismissed a challenge to Florida’s ban on encouraging discussion of sexuality in schools—the law derided as the “Don’t … Read more
David Dempsey’s “brutal” attacks on police officers earned him one of the longest sentences so far handed down to the Trump supporters who sacked the U.S. Capitol on Jan 6, 2021. Sentencing him to 20 years imprisonment, senior D.C. District Judge Royce Lamberth described Dempsey’s actions as “exceptionally egregious” and nearly resulting in a “bloodbath” … Read more
The insurrectionary accouterments of Jacob Chansley, better known as QAnon Shaman, must be returned to him. A judge ordered the U.S. Justice Department to give him back the “unmistakeable outfit” confiscated when Chansley was arrested fir his part in the Jan 6, 2021 riots on Capitol Hill. Chansley, who was sentenced to 41 months imprisonment … Read more