I sat in Judge Tim Kelly's courtroom last week as he detailed in a nearly three-hour oral ruling why he was poised to hand down harsh prison sentences for members of the Proud Boys convicted by a D.C. jury of dubious, if not outright laughable, charges such as seditious conspiracy and obstruction of an official proceeding.
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Kelly's dramatic monologue represented the cherry on top of the sh*t sundae the judge has created in his courtroom over the past few years in this matter.
Kelly denied release of the defendants even though they were not charged with assaulting police or bringing weapons to the Capitol; four of the five defendants languished behind bars for nearly two years before the trial began.
Time and again, Kelly sided with the government in withholding from the jury extensive evidence of FBI misconduct and use of informants.
It's hard to point to one instance when Kelly ruled in the defense's favor.
Now Kelly has placed his judicial imprimatur on the DOJ's attempt to codify fence-shaking as a terror crime punishable by up to ten extra years in jail.
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