It sounds like Charles Edward Littlejohn is a fucking badass and overall rad dude worth celebrating. Additionally, if he gets the maximum sentence of 5 years, that will be drastically longer than many of the January 6th rioters. I can't change the outcome for him, but I do wish him luck.

It doesn't sound to me like he thought he was above the law. He seemed to know the consequences. He just didn't think that Trump should be above the law. Or, at the very least, above presidential decorum.

American hero

He knew he wasn't above the law, he just believed the consequences were worth it. I hope he's right.

He held the records up to the light knowing he would be burned by it. Truly the definition of a hero.

What a fucking hero.

Absolute bullshit that this guy is getting the maximum sentence for releasing what Trump himself had said he was going to release years ago and what it's just taken for granted that Presidents will always release (it should be a requirement for the job). MEANWHILE, the list of crimes that Trump has committed makes this seem like a petty crime in comparison and Trump is still walking free. Trump has literally admitted to seeing himself as above the law.

This is probably one of the hardest things to do in the era we live in - go against our social engineering to sacrifice a relatively comfortable life in defiance of this moment.

Collectively, we're frogs in the pot, especially as we move towards the end of this year and the worldwide elections as an accelerator to societal collapse. It's so hard to know what to do that might make a difference today, at least this person tried, I hope society persists beyond this garbage moment and for long enough to allow history to look back on people like this as heros who at least tried.

Littlejohn… friend of Robinhood?

If he gets jail time, I'll contribute to his commissary account.

Why wasn't he protected as a whistleblower? Or why isn't Biden pardoning him?

I suspect he never believed he was above the law, but that the law was broken.

Everyone's taxes should be public information. There are too many rich assholes hiding the fact that they don't pay their fair share.

Hey, it worked for the Scientologists...

Prosecutors for the Department of Justice’s “public integrity” section are complete fucking twats. They’ve been 1000% blind to anything trump has done, oh but this guy? Yeah “five years in jail”!

Fuckers. I hope they fear the truth that their lives are being wasted to serve their pinheaded idiot masters.

And we’re not doing the “but it’s against the law” thing when it comes to dealing with trump. The convicted fraudster rapist who stage a coup to stay in power? Motherfucker we’re about to go Thomas Jefferson on that demented greasy fuck if he keeps threatening the Constitution and, well, everybody else. Because the pinheads at the Department of Justice’s “public integrity” unit are busy stuffing their heads up their butts. Time’s up, Merrick. You got shit done.

Hey while we got ya Merrick, you got that unredacted Mueller Report we paid 15 million for? No? Still deciding on that are ya? Fuckhead republiQan stooge.

Obviously, with a name like "Littlejohn," he's a good guy in league with Robin Hood and Friar Tuck and all the other Merry Men. In his defense, Trump did (repeatedly) promise to disclose his IRS tax returns to the public. The man only helped Trump keep a campaign promise. Littlejohn ought to get an award and an all-expense paid vacation at Mar-a-Lago!

I’d like to remind everyone that Little John is one of the people who fought alongside Robin Hood.

Tax returns should be public anyways

The hero we need.

Littlejohn just pulled a big john in my pants move.

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."

Does he have a go fund me?

Talk about a real go getter attitude. He had his eye on the prize, followed through, and delivered!

He pleaded guilty, but I don't think a jury would have convicted him.

Cool Story DOJ, now fuck off.

He did good.

2nd to the guy who became the university of ohio mascot to beat up the ohio state mascot.

@MicroWave @news I want a job to expose my political enemies, it says so right there on my resume

Thank you for your service to the public.