Don Lemon, Minnesota and Anti-ICE
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A federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s attempt to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters who breached a Minnesota church over the weekend,
Before a grand jury ultimately returned the indictment that led to Friday’s arraignment, the Justice Department had been rebuffed by multiple judges in its initial efforts to charge Lemon and others.
Inexperienced prosecutors are testing FACE Act in their case against Don Lemon. But the law has constitutional problems that make it untenable to charge misconduct in a house of worship.
The ruling by a panel that included two Trump appointees followed a sharp rebuke of prosecutors by the chief federal judge in Minnesota.