#don-lemon

#don-lemon

According to the motion for grand jury transcripts that Lemon and Georgia Fort (the other journalist charged in the case) filed yesterday, also on Tuesday, their attorneys had a video meeting with whoever plans to prosecute this case, at which DOJ opposed the bid to get transcripts. On February 10, 2026, counsel for Mr. Lemon and Ms. Fort met and conferred by video with government counsel and advised of their intent to file this joint motion. The government, through counsel, indicated they oppose this motion.

"For more than 30 years, I've been a journalist, and the power and protection of the First Amendment has been the underpinning of my work. The First Amendment, the freedom of the press, are the bedrock of our democracy," Lemon said outside the courthouse after his arraignment. "And like all of you here in Minnesota, the great people of Minnesota, I will not be intimidated, I will not back down."

However, he and several other prosecutors in the office recently quit after the U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) told them to drop their investigation into the legality of an ICE agent's killing of Renee Good, a queer mother of three. Instead, the DOJ tasked the office with investigating Good's widow for any possible links to other anti-ICE protest groups (which the administration has referred to as a "sinister left-wing movement").

Thompson resigned from the U.S. attorney's office in mid-January due to the Department of Justice's handling of the investigation into the killing of Renee Good at the hands of an Immigration and Customs Enforcement agent. Senior DOJ officials resisted Thompson and other prosecutors' calls to investigate the shooting itself, instead pushing for an investigation into Good's widow. Six federal prosecutors in Minnesota, including Thompson, resigned over the government's lack of scrutiny into the shooting, as did an FBI agent who sought to investigate the ICE officer who killed Good.

Fox host Sean Hannity, on his radio show, raged at the protest, saying that the congregants were somehow incapable of leaving, even as they stood there being interviewed at length by Lemon. He then played some audio from the protest, which included one protestor (possibly William Kelly, who was also arrested), calling the Cities Church congregants "comfortable white people." Hannity then asked Fox News legal analyst Gregg Jarrett to comment on the audio clip.

It's once again Music's Biggest Night, where heavy hitters vie for the most esteemed qualifiers to stick onto album packaging. There's a lot for five-time host Trevor Noah to get into after this weekend in Los Angeles saw huge "ICE Out" demonstrations and an arrest for Don Lemon on specious terror charges just hours after he attended a concert from the Best New Artist-nominated girl group KATSEYE.

Moynihan said, The question is, is he a protester or a journalist? And the indictment obviously suggested that he posted himself at the main door, he prevented people from exiting. That comment got an instant reaction from Phillip, who jumped in and said Moynihan was way off. No, no it does not say that, Phillip protested. It says that protesters did that, it names the other people, it did not say that Don did that.

The arrest of former CNN anchor Don Lemon by federal authorities in Los Angeles today for his alleged participation in an anti-ICE protest in a St. Paul, Minnesota, church on January 18 is startling on multiple grounds. First of all, it's not like Lemon was a fugitive from justice. Two judges in Minnesota had earlier denied a requested indictment of Lemon, so he felt free to go to L.A. to cover the Grammy Awards.

Lemon was in Los Angeles covering the Grammy Awards when he was taken into custody Thursday evening. His arrest comes after federal prosecutors failed to bring charges against him for his interviews of protestors who staged a demonstration at a Minnesota church. Georgia Fort, an independent journalist and vice president of the Minnesota chapter of the National Association of Black Journalists, was also arrested Friday morning in connection with her reporting in Minnesota, she confirmed in a Facebook live video as agents demanded her surrender.

Don has been a journalist for 30 years, and his constitutionally protected work in Minneapolis was no different than what he has always done," Lowell said. "The First Amendment exists to protect journalists whose role it is to shine light on the truth and hold those in power accountable.