“Judge: Gyrocopter pilot can’t join campaign finance protest march to Washington”

WaPo:

The man who landed a gyrocopter on the lawn of the U.S. Capitol last year was denied permission to join a campaign finance protest march from Philadelphia to Washington before his April 13 sentencing by a federal judge who cited the risk the pilot could join in civil disobedience.

U.S. District Judge Colleen Kollar-Kotelly of the District noted Wednesday that it did not appear that D.C. police have issued a permit for what organizers with the group 99Rise called a “Democracy Spring” march, featuring Douglas Hughes, 62, of Ruskin, Fla..

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