EDIT II: I am indeed apparently quoting the prosecutors. Whoopsie doodles. Prosecutors are generally ass people, too, of course. Leaving the original for my shame.

Defendant weaponized his access to unmasked taxpayer data to further his own personal, political agenda, believing that he was above the law

Literally no one who does something like this thinks they’re above the law when they’re just doing to force our elected officials to comply with the law.

Fucking judges man, they’re just as shitty as fucking cops. Look at this fucking holier than thou bullshit attitude from this asswipe. The number of judges who equate the law with morality and ethics is too damn high. The number of judges who trust the cops word over anyone else’s simply because they’re a cop is too damn high.

I got read the riot act by a judge over weed once. I may as well have been dealing with a priest I got so much holier than thou how dangerous you are bullshit over fucking WEED.

AJAB.

EDIT: I mean, hell, you want a real disgusting example of this? Go look at the court history around the prosecution of Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers. Ellsberg got lucky, because he was absolutely treated similarly by the judge, as though he “thought he was above the law” and not that he was trying to correct an injustice. I guess judges only like it when they can “correct” an “injustice.”