Magistrate judge rejects charges against Don Lemon over anti-ICE protest in Minnesota church

[Coventina]

A Minnesota federal magistrate judge refused to sign a complaint charging independent journalist Don Lemon in connection with a protest inside a church in St. Paul on Sunday, multiple sources familiar with the proceedings told CBS News.

"The attorney general is enraged at the magistrate's decision," said a source familiar with the matter. Attorney General Pam Bondi has been in Minnesota for two days, as the Justice Department has sought to surge prosecutorial and law enforcement resources there.

A different source stressed that the process is not over, and the Justice Department could find other avenues to charge Lemon.

On Thursday morning, Bondi announced two arrests connected to the church protest — Chauntyll Louisa Allen, who serves on the St. Paul School Board, and Nekima Levy Armstrong. Bondi alleged that Armstrong was involved in organizing the protest.



https://www.cbsnews.com/news/magistrate-judge-rejects-charges-don-lemon-anti-ice-protest-minnesota-church/

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The attempt to jail a member of the press is an attack on our free press rights.

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[EdmondDantes_]

1. So just following her logic here

She's definitely not supporting doing anything to interfere with the right to assemble or to violate the 4th amendment right? Right?

[underpants]

4. I'd seen it referred to as The Klan Act. They think they're so clever.

Conspiracy against rights is a federal offense in the United States of America under 18 U.S.C. § 241:

Conspiracy against rights was initially invoked against vigilante groups like the Ku Klux Klan that acted to prevent recently-emancipated Black Southerners from exercising their rights granted by the Reconstruction Amendments in the aftermath of the American Civil War.[5][6][7] The legislative intent of the statute was aimed towards election offenses which interfered with the exercise of the Fourteenth and Fifteenth Amendments. As the law does not define new rights nor does it elaborate on the range relevant rights or privileges, courts have generally interpreted that the attempted deprivation of a broad range of rights falls under the scope of the statute.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conspiracy_against_rights

[UpInArms]

2. Enraged?

That nasty thing is despicable

[underpants]

3. Pamela Jo should be used to losing in court by this point.