The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday upheld the conviction of two members of a group billing itself as the “premier MMA (mixed martial arts) club of the Alt-Right” but that one extremist watchdog described as a “racist fight club” whose members engaged in violent acts at the 2017 “Unite the Right” rally in Charlottesville, Virginia. The high court did not comment on denying the appeals of the two men, Michael Paul Miselis and Benjamin Drake Daley, according to a June 14 list of summary dispositions (pdf). With the move, the Supreme Court upheld a lower court conviction of Miselis and Daley, who pleaded guilty to violating the Anti-Riot Act but later challenged their conviction by arguing that the federal riot law violated the First Amendment’s free speech clause. Daley was sentenced to 37 months in prison while Miselis was sentenced to 27 months, to be followed by two years of supervised release …
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