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Judge Amy Berman Jackson of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia declared a mistrial on another, similar felony count after the jury deliberated for more than three days.
District Judge Carl Nichols allowed Bannon to be released pending a possible appeal of his conviction on two counts of contempt of Congress.
District Judge Stanley Blumenfeld Jr.
“As a mother, as a judge who has had to deal with these cases, I was thinking that nothing could be further from the truth,” Jackson said.
Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson worked as a public defender and on a commission to make criminal sentences more fair before she was appointed to federal courts in Washington.
But federal judges did not have any of the guidance that typically would ensure a new law is applied as evenly as possible nationwide, from courtroom to courtroom.
Usually watchers are limited to a few hundred who can fit inside the courtroom.
But the Senate is not a courtroom. Senators are not simply jurors. The ultimate question about Trump’s behavior is about politics and the Constitution, not guilt beyond a reasonable doubt.