Texas anti-ICE protesters convicted of terrorism charges sentenced to at least 50 years in prison
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jun/23/prairieland-ice-protesters-texas-sentenced?referring_host=Reddit&%3Butm_campaign=guardianacct
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PineRune@lemmy.world · 32 pts · 58d
Didn't the Trump Administration, who are actively praising the unusually harsh sentences, just pardon a bunch of people who were guilty of violent extremism and attacking law enforcement officers?
Wataba@sh.itjust.works · 8 pts · 58d
Todd Blanche had better watch his neck.
EonNShadow@pawb.social · 27 pts · 58d
50 years is fucking insane
SoupBrick@pawb.social · 19 pts · 58d
Conservatives are fucking insane.
aaa@piefed.ca · 8 pts · 58d
Conservatives are fucking insane.
Skyrmir@lemmy.world · 3 pts · 58d
Pretty sure the sentence was intentionally insane so it could be appealed.
Lasherz12@lemmy.world · 15 pts · 58d
The judge who sentenced them this way has one of the highest rate of overturning in the country and has long been used in order to rule on stuff that's not even his jurisdiction because he always rules with the Republican interests. Turns out when judges are the ones who are supposed to say, "no jurisdiction" they could theoretically just not say that... It will be overturned for a different sentence, but there's something to be said that judges with purely ideological leanings getting consistently admonished from higher courts for dogshit opinions probably shouldn't be allowed to remain being judges without consequences.
LibertyLizard@slrpnk.net · 9 pts · 58d
He literally hand-picked the jury. It was a sham trial.
apftwb@lemmy.world · 12 pts · 58d
Regarding the person who was sentenced to 30 years for transporting a box of zines...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hans_and_Sophie_Scholl
breezeblock@lemmy.ca · 6 pts · 58d
Fascist regime built on lies