It takes a significant amount of courage to not only violate a court-imposed gag order, but admit it on the second-highest rated show on cable news.

But that’s exactly what Eric O’Keefe did Thursday night.

O’Keefe and several other conservative activists have been the targets of a “hyper-partisan” District Attorney, Milwaukee’s John Chisholm and a so-called “John Doe” investigation.

He, along with a former DA staff attorney Michael Lutz appeared on “The Kelly File” Thursday night is bring attention to it.

The most poignant moment came when O’Keefe acknowledged he was defying the gag order to expose targeting of conservatives by the prosecutor.

“Eric, are you under a secrecy order right now because everybody’s been told not to speak,” Kelly asked.

“Yes, an unconstitutional secrecy order and I’m defying the secrecy order,” O’Keefe responded.

“Right now,” Kelly acknowledged.

After a pause, O’Keefe said, “Yes.”

She asked him if he was “fearful” for doing so and he said no.

“I would ask them if they want to arrest me to give a phone call and I’ll turn myself in,” O’Keefe said.

Right Wisconsin reports the U.S. Supreme Court “will consider Friday whether to hear a civil rights lawsuit brought by Eric O’Keefe, a victim of John Doe abuses, who is suing Milwaukee County District Attorney John Chisholm and others prosecutors to stop the John Doe investigation.”

A shocking description of what O’Keefe and his allies went through at the hands of Chisholm can be found in the National Review.