That doesn't make it ok that she was arrested.

It's the usa so the law is whatever the corrupt want it to be

Send the judge a few bags of money, and it will.

So we would hope, but recently someone got 50 years (in Britain, but these legal realities aren't too much different for us in statesia right now) for protesting in favor of Palestinian Action. And the fifth circuit just, I don't know how to describe it, exists.

So the courts should function as a check on executive overreach and malfeasance, right? Problem is that word should does a lot of lifting.