Belly laughers beware: Jeff Sessions is tough on chuckling.

A woman who laughed during the Jeff Sessions confirmation hearing was convicted of disorderly order charges.

The New York Times reports she faces up to 12 months in jail, $2,000 in fines, or both, depending on the outcome of a June 21 sentencing hearing.

The woman, Desiree Fairooz, got the giggles when Alabama Senator Richard Shelby said Sessions' record of "treating all Americans equally under the law is clear and well-documented."

"I just couldn't hold it," Fairooz reportedly said during the trial. "It was spontaneous. It was an immediate rejection of what I considered an outright lie or pure ignorance."

Did we wake up in Russia? Doesn't the First Amendment cover the freedom to snort, guffaw and giggle? Not when the laughter is at the expense of our new attorney general, apparently.

Sessions, who also believes "good people don't smoke marijuana", is in need of a good shoot-milk-out-the-nose chortle.

Under the thin-skinned Trump administration, snickering is a serious offense.

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