With the U.S. Supreme Court’s lawyer watching, the protester who was arrested for disrupting oral argument on Feb. 26 pleaded guilty Tuesday in D.C. Superior Court and was given a light sentence.
Noah Kai Newkirk could have been sentenced to nine months in jail and fined up to $15,000 on the three federal charges to which he pleaded guilty. But Superior Court Judge Juliet McKenna sentenced Newkirk to time served—he had been detained overnight after his arrest—and ordered him to pay $150. The fine will be paid to a fund for crime victims.
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