If she’d ever been in the courtroom before as a defendant’s lawyer, she knows the rules. This was a deliberate tactic to slow or impede the process. She needs to be fined, or held in contempt.
Tell me she did not wear the shirt on purpose to delay proceedings and cost the tax payers more money. What's next among the lawyers? I don't think that Antifa filling the courtroom will really help the case. Maybe that is the next effort to waste tax payers money? At least the judge can kick people out of the courtroom who display any bad behavior. Bad behavior is likely both inside and outside the courtroom.
It appears that we will have to bring back dress codes in schools, in professions, meetings of legislatures, and various other public places that function better with standards of conduct to provide some structure.
Courtrooms are not campaign rallies. They are constitutional arenas governed by rules designed to protect impartiality. When an attorney injects overt political messaging into jury selection—especially in a terrorism case—the damage is immediate. The mistrial wasn’t about speech suppression; it was about preserving due process. If lawyers treat trials as activist stages, they erode the legitimacy of the verdict before it’s rendered. Justice requires discipline. The rule of law cannot coexist with theatrical provocation aimed at juror psychology. You don’t win credibility by politicizing procedure. You win it by respecting the institution you claim to defend.
Attorney Clayton needs more than a sanction. She should be disbarred! How does someone that unhinged (and downright stupid) ever qualify to be a lawyer in the first place? Unbelievable 😠
I hate that we have to wonder about that. Clayton's attire is a symptom of the disintegration of professionalism generally. Sinking to the lowest denominator so to speak.
Let's hope she'll be sanctioned for this blatantly idiotic stunt.
Imagine being in the jury pool and having your time wasted in this way.
Imagine being a taxpayer in that jurisdiction and having your hard-earned tax dollars squandered in this way.
Imagine paying attorney's fees for trial preparation only to have to reschedule because of this foolishness.
Imagine being the family, friend or co-worker of the officer who was shot during the commission of the heinous crimes being tried.
Yes, Clayton's willfully spiteful conduct clearly rises to the level of contempt, at best, and she should be held to account. She deserves a heavy fine at minimum, and preferably disbarment.
I look forward to seeing TNM's followup reports on this important case.
The judiciary has become a laughingstock. To be fair, promoting feelings over meritocracy, ALL of our institutions have become laughingstocks. Since the legal system is the bedrock that all other pillars of society rest upon though, hard times ahead.
If she’d ever been in the courtroom before as a defendant’s lawyer, she knows the rules. This was a deliberate tactic to slow or impede the process. She needs to be fined, or held in contempt.
I agree. There were very likely rules broken.
Pushing boundaries and breaking rules is their MO. She thought the court would let her get away with it and was surprised when it back-fired.
She needs to be sanctioned. The $500 fine Andy mentioned in relation to another case is nowhere near high enough to be a deterrent.
I wonder why no one pointed this out to the judge before the jurors were brought into the courtroom.
Tell me she did not wear the shirt on purpose to delay proceedings and cost the tax payers more money. What's next among the lawyers? I don't think that Antifa filling the courtroom will really help the case. Maybe that is the next effort to waste tax payers money? At least the judge can kick people out of the courtroom who display any bad behavior. Bad behavior is likely both inside and outside the courtroom.
I don’t know Andy, maybe I’m just old now, but exactly when did a T-shirt become appropriate attire for court, especially an attorney?
I'm surprised only because most courts have rules of decorum, that include dress codes for attorneys. It's common.
It appears that we will have to bring back dress codes in schools, in professions, meetings of legislatures, and various other public places that function better with standards of conduct to provide some structure.
"Diversity" is turning us into Zimbabwe. That woman is not qualified to be an attorney in civilized society.
You know her people will elect her to be a judge, shes running and they will elect her. Dont doubt it.
Courtrooms are not campaign rallies. They are constitutional arenas governed by rules designed to protect impartiality. When an attorney injects overt political messaging into jury selection—especially in a terrorism case—the damage is immediate. The mistrial wasn’t about speech suppression; it was about preserving due process. If lawyers treat trials as activist stages, they erode the legitimacy of the verdict before it’s rendered. Justice requires discipline. The rule of law cannot coexist with theatrical provocation aimed at juror psychology. You don’t win credibility by politicizing procedure. You win it by respecting the institution you claim to defend.
Attorney Clayton needs more than a sanction. She should be disbarred! How does someone that unhinged (and downright stupid) ever qualify to be a lawyer in the first place? Unbelievable 😠
Totally agree with this. Andy has written extensively about how the violent Left has a whole stable of well-funded attorneys to protect them.
I wonder if any of the U.S. District Court judges in Portland would've had a problem with her attire.
Good question.
I hate that we have to wonder about that. Clayton's attire is a symptom of the disintegration of professionalism generally. Sinking to the lowest denominator so to speak.
Kangaroo court would be consistent with fascistic antifa's tactics.
Shirt with “Donald Trump riding an eagle with an ICE flag.” These would sell like hotcakes
How many of the defendants are out on bail?
Let's hope she'll be sanctioned for this blatantly idiotic stunt.
Imagine being in the jury pool and having your time wasted in this way.
Imagine being a taxpayer in that jurisdiction and having your hard-earned tax dollars squandered in this way.
Imagine paying attorney's fees for trial preparation only to have to reschedule because of this foolishness.
Imagine being the family, friend or co-worker of the officer who was shot during the commission of the heinous crimes being tried.
Yes, Clayton's willfully spiteful conduct clearly rises to the level of contempt, at best, and she should be held to account. She deserves a heavy fine at minimum, and preferably disbarment.
I look forward to seeing TNM's followup reports on this important case.
Not only are the trans-Antifa types crazy but so are their attorneys! I pray that Ms. Clayton's election campaign flames out royally!
Crazy like foxes. Their behavior, no matter how 'crazy' it seems, is purposeful. And sad to say, often effective.
The judiciary has become a laughingstock. To be fair, promoting feelings over meritocracy, ALL of our institutions have become laughingstocks. Since the legal system is the bedrock that all other pillars of society rest upon though, hard times ahead.