McCool Pushes Judge for First Amendment Instruction in Trump Trial

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/protesting-dc-trump-inauguration-trial_us_5a1e1e84e4b0d724fed48d32

Steven McCool, who is representing defendant Harris, told the judge outside of the presence of the jury last week that he’d be requesting a jury instruction on the First Amendment. What kind of jury instruction, Judge Lynn Leibovitz wondered, one that said we “like it a lot?” “I wish we liked it more,” replied McCool, a former federal prosecutor. “Apparently we don’t.”

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