every day i suspect things can't get any more stupid, along comes a report like this of a judge who ignores the laws and 'orders' and imposes their own prejudices, and ignorance;

A North Carolina judge sent a prospective juror to jail after he refused an order to wear a mask, despite there being no mandate on the books.

“I never thought I would show up to jury duty and end up behind bars. So it happened,” Gregory Hahn told Tucker Carlson on “Tucker Carlson Tonight.”

Judge Charles Gilchrist, who was first nominated to the bench by former Democratic Gov. Bev Purdue, remanded Hahn to custody after he refused the judge’s order to put a mask on. The Harnett County Courthouse in Lillington reportedly does not have a mask mandate. Wearing masks, Hahn said, was optional at the courthouse, and North Carolina Democratic Gov. Roy Cooper lifted his statewide mandate months ago.

Hahn, who is reportedly a Navy Veteran who served as a member of the President’s Honor Guard at Arlington National Cemetery,  noted there were 98 jurors and that clerks told the pool that Gilchrist personally required masks in his courtoom.

“We were in [an assembly room] for about 20 to 30 minutes, shoulder-to-shoulder, with three-quarters of us not wearing masks,” he recalled..........more........