A federal magistrate judge rejected the Justice Department’s initial attempt to bring charges against journalist Don Lemon for appearing alongside protesters who breached a Minnesota church over the weekend, a source told CNN.

  • Drusas@fedia.io
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    Justice Department officials immediately, and publicly, asserted that he would face charges. They said Lemon did not have a right to be on the church’s private property, adding that interrupting the service may have impeded in the churchgoers’ constitutional rights to express their religion.

    Good thing the first amendment isn’t there to protect Americans against journalists.