Given that the Schuberts are in their 60s and 70s, the judge said she didn’t think home detention made sense. Rather, she said she wanted them to perform substantial community service because “we need more than just words and more than just letter writing.”
U.S. District Judge Amy Berman Jackson handed down the sentence after a prosecutor asked for home detention for John and Amy Schubert.
The Schuberts pleaded guilty in December to a misdemeanor count of parading, demonstrating or picketing in a Capitol building. Prosecutors said they entered the Capitol through a broken window shortly after Congress evacuated at 2:20 p.m. Court records also show Amy Schubert sent text messages telling someone on the day of the breach that "A woman was shot 20 feet in front of use [sic]. We’re ok. Got into a little confrontation w Antifa." That was an apparent reference to the fatal shooting of Ashli Babbitt.