Just Homeless
I was blessed today to attend a trial in DC – pro-life friends on trial for a rescue in DC two years ago. Will Goodman, Lauren Handy, John Hinshaw, Herb Geraghty, and Heather Idoni are charged with violating the FACE Act (Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrance) and conspiracy. This is in a Federal court; the charges are Federal. FACE carries a maximum penalty of one year; conspiracy has a max of ten years. The conspiracy charge is more than slightly weird; every single act of civil disobedience that Rev. Martin Luther King engaged in required a “conspiracy” to prepare. The judge is Colleen Kollar-Kotelly. She’s half-Irish, half-Hungarian, educated in Catholic schools in DC – Visitation then Catholic U then CUA Law School. My experience with Catholic judges in years past was bad: they often leaned over backwards to prove that they weren’t bowing forward towards Rome, and so they hammered pro-lifers. But she has a solid reputation as a judge who listens. We’ll see. The trial may last t...