No Laughing Matter.

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Desiree Fairooz, a sixty-one-year-old CodePink activist from Virginia, laughed out loud at the confirmation hearing for U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions when a Senator praised the nominee's nonexistent record of "treating all Americans equally." She was removed from the room, placed under arrest, and later convicted of "disorderly or disruptive conduct," which carries a potential penalty of one year in jail.

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