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DoJ drops case against woman found guilty for laughing when it was claimed Sessions was not racist

Jackpot

Jackpot

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Oct 26, 2017
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Remember this?

The Department of Justice has dropped a case that was, indeed, a laughing matter.

Desiree Ali-Fairooz was scheduled to stand for her second trial on Nov. 13 after being arrested for what appeared to be laughing during Attorney General Jeff Sessions' confirmation hearing in January. Ali-Fairooz tweeted she had received notice that her case was being dropped on Monday afternoon.

Ali-Fairooz, an activist with the organization Code Pink, was convicted of disrupting Congress when she let out a laugh while reacting to Alabama Sen. Richard Shelby that Sessions' record of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented." She was found guilty in May, and was told she faced up to six months in jail.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2017/11/07/doj-drops-case-woman-laughed-at-jeff-sessions-244646
 
makonero

makonero

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Oct 27, 2017
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I'm glad those petty assholes didn't push it further, but it never should have gotten this far in the first place. What a laughable lawsuit.
 
Z-Beat

Z-Beat

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Oct 25, 2017
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But it'll still be two weeks before they say they're sorry.
 

Robdraggoo

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Oct 25, 2017
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Did she spend any time in jail awaiting bullshit trials?

Because she needs to sue of she did
 
Gonzalez

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Oct 25, 2017
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Can she sue the DoJ for dragging her through this legal battle? I'm sure she lost plenty of money fighting this case.
 
dyst

dyst

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Oct 27, 2017
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In many ways we're so similar to the very nations we strive not to be. Why this was even a thing is beyond comprehension.
 
Vortex

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Good on the judge for tossing the first conviction, and for cooler heads ultimately prevailing.
 

Deleted member 3058

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This was a long time coming.

Hope she sues them for legal expenses, mental anguish, and for their embarrassingly frivolous prosecution of her.
 

Deleted member 9317

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Question: Was it a sensible chuckle, a putin laugh, a Big Bang Theory laugh-track laugh or an Ozzy Osborne opening track laugh?

I mean she was guilty for it, right?
 
Tex Murphy

Tex Murphy

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Nov 2, 2017
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"I think we've sufficiently hassled her and fucked up her life enough for her to get the point. Shut it down boys. I do declare, I am in need of a mint julep."
 
tokkun

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Ashodin said:
Would have set some dangerous ass precedents.
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Not really. It is illegal to protest in a Congressional hearing. That is already well-established. People are arrested for it quite frequently. It's not like they made up a new rule or pulled out some obscure law to charge her.

That isn't to say that I don't think it was dumb to bother pursuing it in court for so long at tax-payer expense for what was a very brief disruption, but for people acting like this was some legal novelty, that is not the case.
 
Palette Swap

Palette Swap

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Oct 25, 2017
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Now they need to look into the guy who commited perjury during that hearing, because that's a bigger concern.
 
faceless

faceless

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Oct 25, 2017
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Hokuten said:
Who arrested her, Joey Crawford?
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Steel

Steel

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Oct 25, 2017
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You might say... They were laughed out of court! BA-DUM-TISH.

Yeah, i know. Someone had to do it. I'll show myself out.
 
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