I’m sorry the sanctions against the city and NYPD weren’t harsher, but a NYC judge has ordered the release of more than 500 “demonstrators” (including some juveniles) held too long in legal limbo in what was clearly a ploy to assure a quiet RNC, and never mind the Constitution.

The good news is “the courts still work.” The bad news is it took this long, and the people who ordered this approach — “arrest everydamnbody, and hold ’em until somebody with a lawyer starts squawking” — will see no real consequences.