No laughing in the kingdom
The Feds are prosecuting a woman for laughing during Jeff Sessions’s confirmation hearing.
During Jeff Sessions’ confirmation hearings, Senator Richard Selby claimed that the North Carolina senator’s history of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented.” At that, activist and CodePink member Desiree Fairooz laughed, since Sessions is actually best known for being deemed too racist for a federal judgeship in the 1980s. As the Huffington Post reports, a rookie cop with no appreciation for irony arrested Fairooz, and prosecutors are charging the 61-year-old with attempting to “impede, disrupt, and disturb the orderly conduct” of the hearings.
Who is the prosecutors’ boss? Why, Jeff Sessions.
A lawyer representing Fairooz at trial noted that other spectators laughed during the Sessions hearings, including when he joked about disagreements with his wife. According to the prosecutor, it was “appropriate for the audience to laugh when Sessions made a joke about his marriage but not when Shelby claimed Sessions had a long record of ‘treating all Americans equally.’”
So let me see if I understand this – it’s legal to laugh at Jeff Sessions’s jokes, but illegal to laugh at a senator’s brazen lie about Sessions? What law is that exactly?
I’m not a lawyer, but I think it’s the law of Shut Up, You.
Damn, this thing is actually in trial. I was expecting to see that they had only recently made the charges, and hope that wiser heads would prevail.
Banana republic – once known as the United States of America, now renamed for your convenience the Untied States of America (which is also easier to type, I might add).
This is getting indistinguishably close to those “No Dissing Our Dear Leader” laws they have in enlightened places like Turkey, Thailand, North Korea….
Back to Jackson, is it possible that Trump’s man-crush might have a lot to do with his ‘Stonewall’ nickname? Maybe we could afford Donie equal honours and call him Donald ‘No Wall’ Trump.
AoS – if that’s so, it’s just another example of Trump’s ignorance. Stonewall Jackson was Thomas Jackson, a Confederate general in the Civil War. Andrew Jackson’s nickname was Old Hickory.
Ah, that’s my ignorance, mixing up my Jacksons. Thank Gawd I didn’t confuse him with Michael, another Jackson famous for a wall.
I’m sure Trump will soon inform us of the good things Michael Jackson has been doing, and how he is finally starting to get the recognition he deserves.
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