EDITORIAL: Activist judge abandons neutrality in sentencing for insurrectionist – By Las Vegas Sun Editorial Board (Las Vegas Sun) / Oct 5 2021
A federal judge stepped grossly out of line last week in his justification for granting probation to a Jan. 6 rioter.
In a sentencing hearing for defendant Danielle Doyle, U.S. District Court Judge Trevor McFadden rejected a recommendation by federal prosecutors for two months of home confinement.
That would be fine if McFadden based his decision purely on the facts of the case. But he didn’t. Instead, he turned the case into a political attack on prosecutors, suggesting they’d been overly harsh in pursuing the Capitol insurrectionists compared with individuals arrested during Black Lives Matter protests last summer.
“I think the U.S. attorney would have more credibility if it was even-handed in its concern about riots and mobs in this city,” said McFadden, who was appointed to the federal bench by former President Donald Trump.
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