Ergul is scheduled to be sentenced on May 30 for his crimes and could face as much as 21 years in prison, according to a statement from the U.S. Department of Justice on Thursday.
Republicans are hoping it will be more like 4 so they can run him for congress in 2028.
You can run for office from prison.
True, but you have to be present to vote in congress.
When has being ineffective ever disqualified someone from Congress?
… I started writing this reply to be funny, then I realized it’s basically true, then I got sad.
Cue the Fox interview in about a week
You get more years for this than attacking democracy? Really?
I’m not down playing the severity of what he tried and I hope he gets the max years, but wtf.
One is a conspiracy, this is a lone terrorist act. The capitol hill crowd is being charged as a group, more or less.
