A trial judge’s job is to throw cold water on civil disobedience. The law is the law. He’d have given her a break if she apologized, admitted she should have followed the law.
She was unrepentant. She thumbed her nose at the law, and gave her reason.
His job is to take one side of this, hers is to take the other. Now it gets kincked upstairs to the next layer of authority.
Uh, that may be the result in practice, but that is not his job as a judge.