Wrist slap for treasonous Moonbat lawyer

Judge lenient with civil rights lawyer

NEW YORK - Civil rights lawyer Lynne Stewart arrived at her sentencing packed for prison. With medication, books and a pair of sweat pants, she was prepared to begin a stay that could have stretched for 30 years.

Instead, Stewart walked out of the courtroom unshackled, free pending appeal of a 28-month sentence after a judge took into account her career of standing up for the most unpopular clients.

The 67-year-old, convicted of helping a jailed terrorist sheik communicate with his disciples, smiled through tears as the judge announced the sentence Monday. Later, she hugged family and supporters and was handed two bouquets of red roses as she walked out of the courthouse.

"This is a great victory against an overreaching government," she told dozens of supporters outside the lower Manhattan courthouse after winning extraordinary leniency from U.S. District Judge John G. Koeltl.

The judge rejected demands by the government that Stewart be sentenced to 30 years in prison for convictions of conspiracy to provide material support to terrorist organizations, making false statements and defrauding the government.

Prosecutors had blistered Stewart's acts as "egregious, flagrant abuse of her profession, abuse that amounted to material support to a terrorist group."

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Crackpot Jihadist sympathizer (r), Bounty, the quicker picker-upper (l).


Why is it that whenever one reads about a daffy decision from a federal judge, the offender is invariably a Carter or Clinton appointee?

28 months for essentially aiding and comforting the enemy?

"[O]verreaching government"?! This broad happily did the bidding of those who would slaughter you, me and the infidel next door.

The GOP has not given its supporters much motivation to crawl over broken glass to vote for it in three weeks.

It's opponents, however, have.