The six protesters at American University who were recently charged with crossing a police line and disorderly conduct for blocking the path of Karl Rove's car (seen above) will pay $100 fines to settle the charges. As we mentioned earlier, arrest warrants were issued by the Secret Service for the protesters only last week, many months after the original April 3 incident and long after the students involved had served the 40 hours of community service ordered by the school for violating the campus code of conduct.

The Post explains that the $100 fines would constitute restitution for a single charge of crossing a police line, and the deal negotiated by an attorney for the students would leave them with a record of arrest but not conviction.

One of the students who will pay the $100, Joel Gardner, also allegedly mooned Rove during the protest. We originally reported that all six students had engaged in the bare-assed activity, but we overestimated the number of butt cheeks involved in this story -- the correct number is only two. Today is presumably Rove's last day in D.C., so we heartily hope that the former senior White House political adviser's thirst for blood caused by seeing Gardner's crack is satiated by these small fines.