To pretend a democracy actually exists to be converted to a theocracy.
In a democracy, a jury of peers decides the guilt or innocence of a defendant. A JURY. In case the folks of the right-wing extremists don't get it; a lot of people were asked to be jurors and a select few made it to let the defendants know they were not exempt from the rule of law and where damage is caused there are penalties to pay.
The lawyers trying the case SELECTED THE JURORS. Hello!
By Maria Dinzeo
San Francisco - A federal jury (click here) found an anti-abortion cohort led by David Daleiden caused substantial harm to Planned Parenthood by infiltrating abortion industry conferences to secretly tape abortion doctors and staff – and awarded punitive damages of $870,000....
...The jury of nine men and one woman deliberated for a little less than three days. They found Daleiden and his group, which also includes abortion opponents Albin Rhomberg and Troy Newman, conspired to commit fraud, breach of contract and trespass and to violate federal and state recording laws in Maryland, California and Florida....
Crackpots like the Thomas Moore Society defend the people who break the law in order to make martyrs that later deliver political messages.