New charges for group that disrupted SCOTUS

Associated Press
By JESSICA GRESKO

WASHINGTON — Prosecutors are taking a hard line with demonstrators who participated in a rare disruption inside the U.S. Supreme Court, adding additional charges against them and saying disrupting the high court is different from other protests in the nation's capital.

The seven demonstrators were arrested last month after standing inside the court and shouting protests against the court's 2010 Citizens United campaign finance ruling.

On Thursday, prosecutors added two additional misdemeanor charges against the seven demonstrators, and at a court hearing two of the demonstrators agreed to plead guilty in the case. They chose a five-day jail sentence rather than agree to two years unsupervised probation and have been barred from the court grounds for a year.

The other demonstrators now face three charges and will return to court in March.

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