By: Teddy Grant One of the men who breached the U.S. Capitol in January during the insurrection was sentenced to eight months in prison on Monday, according to CNN. Florida's Paul Hodgkins pleaded guilty last month to obstructing congressional proceedings on Jan. 6, which was the same day that Congress counted the electoral votes. He was pictured inside the Senate chamber, wearing a Donald Trump shirt. He is the first Capitol rioter to be convicted of a felony. The Department of Justice sought a year and a half prison sentence for Hodgkins, saying that the attack on the Capitol 'was an act […]

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