Prosecutors Appeal Proud Boys' Prison Sentences Over January 6 Riot
Prosecutors asked for longer prison sentences at trial and now seem to be trying again.
Prosecutors asked for longer prison sentences at trial and now seem to be trying again.
Plus: A listener question concerning porn verification laws.
Civil libertarians should decry the tendency to round everything up to terrorism.
Politics ruin everything, including the criminal justice system.
A jury convicted members of the Proud Boys without evidence of an explicit plot, let alone one that most of the rioters were trying to execute.
Normal criminal law covers the alleged acts without politicizing proceedings.
“It was healthy discourse in a controlled environment,” said one Proud Boy. But was it?
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