Minnesota Judge Blocks DOJ’s Attempt To Charge Don Lemon
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Trump’s Justice Department went after the independent journalist for covering an anti-ICE protest in St. Paul.
A federal magistrate judge in Minnesota has blocked the Justice Department’s attempt to bring charges against former CNN host Don Lemon for his coverage of an anti-ICE protest in St. Paul last weekend, CBS News and CNN reported Thursday.
“The Attorney General is enraged at the magistrate judge’s decision,” a person familiar with the matter told both outlets.
HuffPost has reached out to Lemon, who currently works as an independent journalist, and the DOJ for comment.
The judge’s reported refusal to sign off on the charges comes four days after Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced the DOJ’s plans to pursue charges against the protesters and said Lemon was “on notice,” calling his coverage of the protest “pseudo journalism.” She also said in a podcast interview that being a journalist was not a “shield” to “being a part, an embedded part, of a criminal conspiracy.”
Lemon dismissed the efforts in another podcast interview.
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