{"id":10444,"date":"2017-07-21T17:38:16","date_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:38:16","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=10444"},"modified":"2017-07-21T17:38:16","modified_gmt":"2017-07-21T22:38:16","slug":"but-im-above-the-law-your-honor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2017\/07\/21\/but-im-above-the-law-your-honor\/","title":{"rendered":"But I’m Above The Law, Your Honor"},"content":{"rendered":"

HuffPo<\/strong><\/em> is reporting<\/a> that Greg Gianforte (R-MT), now the lone Representative from Montana, and who assaulted a reporter the day before the election, doesn’t think the judge’s sentence should apply to him:<\/p>\n

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Gianforte entered his guilty plea<\/span><\/a>\u00a0on June 12 and was fined $300 and ordered to pay $85 in court costs. He also was given a 6-month deferred sentence<\/span><\/a> and ordered to perform community service, attend anger management counseling and appear<\/span><\/a> at the Gallatin County Detention Center to be photographed and fingerprinted.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/div>\n

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But Gianforte demurred from the latter part of his punishment. Just a few days later, his legal team filed a motion<\/span><\/a> arguing that the county\u2019s Justice Court does not have the authority to force him to be fingerprinted or photographed because, among other things, he was neither arrested nor charged with a felony.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

I say you just stick him in the pokey. Our elected officials should aspire to and meet the highest standards of conduct, and Rep. Gianforte definitely didn’t even come close. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised if it was a calculated incident.<\/p>\n

He could reverse course and follow former Representative Tom DeLay’s (R) example:<\/p>\n

No one’s ever looked so happy to have his mug shot taken.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

HuffPo is reporting that Greg Gianforte (R-MT), now the lone Representative from Montana, and who assaulted a reporter the day before the election, doesn’t think the judge’s sentence should apply to him: Gianforte entered his guilty plea\u00a0on June 12 and was fined $300 and ordered to pay $85 in court \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10444","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10444"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10446,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10444\/revisions\/10446"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10444"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10444"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10444"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}