Protester convicted of laughing at Jeff Sessions could face a year in jail
You may have heard that the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the District of Columbia is prosecuting three activists from the group Code Pink for their actions to “impede and disrupt” confirmation hearings for Jeff Sessions earlier this year—one of whom says, according to The New York Times, that she did nothing more than laugh. Specifically, she laughed at Senator Richard Shelby’s statement that Sessions’ record of “treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented,” given that the evidence to the contrary is also quite well-documented.