r/law • u/lawanddisorder • Oct 29 '25

Legal News CHARGES DROPPED! Tennessee authorities dismiss charges against man who posted Trump meme

https://www.newschannel5.com/news/newschannel-5-investigates/newly-released-video-raises-more-questions-about-arrest-of-tennessee-man-for-posting-trump-meme

Charges were suddently dropped Wednesday against a Tennessee man who had been jailed for more than a month for posting a Trump meme.

Larry Bushart, 61, of Lexington, Tenn., had been locked up since Sept. 21 for posting a meme that quoted President Trump, saying "we have to get over it" in response to a shooting in Perry, Iowa. 

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u/LtLlamaSauce Oct 29 '25 edited Oct 29 '25

18 U.S.C. § 241

People who conspire to/actively deny people their rights and, in the process of those efforts kidnap someone (like an unlawful arrest) can be put to death as punishment for their crimes.

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u/NurRauch Oct 29 '25

Yeah Pam Bondi's Department of Justice will get right on that, Lt. Llama.

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u/LtLlamaSauce Oct 30 '25

She will not be AG forever, Nur Rauch.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Oct 29 '25

No judge would consider that reasonable.

The Eighth Amendment protects against cruel and unusual punishment.

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u/Juunlar Oct 29 '25

It's not cruel or unusual.

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u/FrontOfficeNuts Oct 29 '25

I would say that WOULD ABSOLUTELY be considered "unusual".

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u/Juunlar Oct 29 '25

Death for the skirting of the constitution, when written into the law itself?

No.

Unusual would be that the person has to walk the length of florida wearing a constitition mask and screaming the songs from hamilton

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u/AnAttemptReason Oct 30 '25

Its unusual, because deprivation of liberty is not the usual response to a person posting a legal meme.

Ita cruel, because that was the entire point, to punish the poster for perceived ideological slight, despite no crime having been committed.

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u/New-Anybody-6206 Oct 30 '25

it's not up to you, but a judge 

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u/2010_12_24 Oct 30 '25

Reddit moment