[Jamie89]

Originally Posted by Livia

The judge has the final say on what goes on in their court. Political symbols are not to be worn. And political symbols are NOT the same as religious and/or patriotic symbols... no matter which way you spin it.

No one's civil rights have infringed. If the an attorney supported the KKK and wore a badge to court they would also be told to remove it without infringing their civil liberties.

The Judge doesn't seem to have blanketly decided that political symbols can't be worn in his court though. He just didn't want that particular badge to be worn. A different attorney tomorrow could walk into a court room wearing a BLM badge and have no issues because the Judge of that court is fine with it. Or the same Judge might allow an attorney to wear a badge with a different political symbol on it. So to go to the extreme of jailing her for 5 days over what was essentially his personal preference seems a bit extreme to me, and far more disruptive to the case and the court than anything that would have happened had he allowed the badge to remain.
If the right thing to do is to ban all political symbols in courts then they should just do that, but leaving it open to nit picking and sending attorneys to jail as a result is crazy (as well as a waste of public money).