A federal judge sentencing protestors from the Capitol riot has called out the hypocrisy of the Biden administration, which defends Black Lives Matter protestors but seeks to prosecute Trump supporters to the fullest extent of the law.

From PJ Media. A federal judge blasted U.S. prosecutors seeking excessive sentences for some nonviolent participants in the Capitol riot, pointing to the treatment of BLM rioters as an example of a clear double standard….

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“It does feel like the government has had two standards here, and I can’t abide by that,” [U.S. District Judge Trevor N. McFadden] added, noting that before January 6, he couldn’t remember an instance where a nonviolent, first-time offender was “sentenced to serious jail time … regardless of their race, gender or political affiliation.”

McFadden expressed his views during the sentencing of a defendant who pleaded guilty to misdemeanor trespassing. The Biden administration called for her to be sentenced to 75 days in jail and one year of probation, which McFadden believed to be excessive….

McFadden noted the same U.S. prosecutor’s office that recommended jail time for the J6 defendant sought a much lighter sentence for a Code Pink activist with a lengthy criminal record who infiltrated Brett Kavanaugh’s Senate Judiciary Committee hearings in September 2018….

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(Excerpt from PJ Media. Photo Credit: Getty Images)