“Bullhorn Lady” Rioter Loses Bid To Lose Ankle Monitor

Law & Crime reports:

A Pennsylvania woman who allegedly used a bullhorn to share detailed plans of the interior of the U.S. Capitol building on Jan. 6 will not have her pretrial conditions loosened, a federal judge has ruled. Rachel Powell, 42, had filed a motion asking Senior U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth to relax the conditions of her pretrial release, which include home detention and location monitoring by way of a GPS ankle bracelet.

Powell, who said she works in publishing, told Lamberth that her job requires a flexible schedule and that she has had to leave business events early in order to comply with her nightly curfew. “It’s just impossible to do my job well,” Powell said. The judge reminded Powell that her situation was temporary. “These are serious felonies,” Lamberth said. “You’re not going to be sitting around your apartment much longer; you’re going to be sitting in a jail cell if you’re convicted.”

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Powell, a Stop The Steal leader, previously enraged the same judge when she defied him by wearing a mesh mask.