The Justice Department has withdrawn its request for arrest warrants against Don Lemon and other protesters who stormed a church in St. Paul after a federal judge declined to sign them.
No arrest warrants have been issued so far in connection with the disruption of the service… pic.twitter.com/1oK99ox0HR
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A federal appeals court rejected a bid by the Justice Department to force the arrest of former CNN anchor Don Lemon and four others over the weekend after a lower court judge refused to sign off on the warrants to take them into custody.
The three-judge panel, made up of Obama appointee Jane Kelly and Trump appointees Steven Graz and Jonathan Kobes, denied the request by the Trump administration to take Lemon into custody over the Jan. 18 demonstration inside Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn.
In a brief concurring statement, however, Graz said that prosecutors had “clearly establish[ed] probable cause for all five arrest warrants … [but] the government has failed to establish that it has no other adequate means of obtaining the requested relief.”
h/t dr0id