Business is popping. The pair know all the shabby tricks prosecutors pull, and emphasize their investigation chops. As in quitting over orders down the hierarchy from Trump, via a Bondi couduit. Orders to not invetigate the obvious bur rather the devious, and they were too moral to do that.
In any even NYT:
Facing
charges over his role at a church protest, Mr. Lemon, a journalist,
retained a veteran litigator who recently resigned from the U.S.
attorney’s office in Minnesota.
Things move in mysterious ways, when you have a defendant who knows the score, and a decimated prosecution, facing better experienced peers. That trial - if it ever happens - will be a joke of a slop-over onto the Bondi-Trump thing, which cares more about the Epstein Papers anyway. The crabgrass guess is a pretrial dismissal, unless Bondi-Trump judge shop for somebody like that lady creep in Miami, who let things stall into the second term demise over wrongly expropriated classified shit.
Don Lemon, good job, sir. From the article:
Joseph
H. Thompson, a former senior federal prosecutor who resigned from the
U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota in mid-January over the Justice
Department’s handling of the immigration operation, has joined Mr.
Lemon’s defense team, according to a court filing.
Mr.
Thompson’s appointment is the latest plot twist in a high-profile case
that has been anomalous from the start. By representing the most
prominent of nine defendants charged in the church protest case, Mr.
Thompson will face off against a department that employed him for nearly
17 years. Mr. Thompson will work alongside Mr. Lemon’s lead defense
lawyer, Abbe Lowell.
The government’s
investigation began after Mr. Lemon, a former CNN anchor who now works
as an independent journalist producing content for a YouTube show,
accompanied protesters who disrupted the Sunday morning service at
Cities Church in St. Paul, Minn., on Jan. 18. Demonstrators targeted the
church because one of its pastors,
David Easterwood, is a senior official with U.S. Immigration and
Customs Enforcement in the state. Mr. Easterwood was not at the service.
Mr.
Lemon, 59, met with protest organizers at the parking lot of a grocery
store, followed them into the church and live streamed as they chanted
“ICE out!” and “Hands up, don’t shoot!”
And the evil empire squealed and bleated - A CHURCH, THEY DESECRATED A CHURCH. OF GOD!
As if Trump cares. Hegsetn, he's enough bats in the belfrey to care, and likely will get another Cross tattoo over the ourrtage he must be inclined to show to keep the public persona humming. What they've yet to show is what the man has inked onto his ass.
More NYT generic detail -
In
a video of the protest Mr. Lemon posted on social media, he is seen
interviewing worshipers as well as protesters inside the church, at one
point saying, “We are not part of the activists, but we’re here reporting on them.”
That night, Harmeet K. Dhillon, the assistant attorney general for civil rights, issued a statement calling Mr. Lemon’s role in the protest “pseudojournalism” that was not protected under the First Amendment.
Days later, a federal magistrate judge signed arrest warrants for three of the protesters but declined to sign off
on warrants for the arrest of Mr. Lemon and four other people. The
chief federal judge in Minnesota, Patrick J. Schiltz, agreed with the
magistrate judge, saying the government had not produced evidence that
Mr. Lemon had broken the law.
Well he was there, and he publicized it. So there. NYT recites how an Indictment was obtained, making a new phrase of out times appropriate. Free the Easterwood Nine
Although crabgrass hasn't heard it chanted, crabgrass does not get around and if it's pumped enought, it will get chanted. That's the expectation, here. NYT adds:
The aggressiveness with which the Justice
Department has pursued the church protest case has unsettled career
prosecutors, according to several people familiar with events at the
U.S. attorney’s office in recent days. Several of them, who spoke on the
condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak
publicly, have noted that the indictment does not include the names of
any career prosecutors at the U.S. attorney’s office in Minnesota as
would be common in a civil rights criminal case.
Mr.
Thompson, who had been the second in command at the U.S. attorney’s
office in Minnesota, resigned on Jan. 13 along with several colleagues
after clashing with leaders at the Justice Department over its handling
of the investigation into the killing of a Minneapolis woman, Renee
Good, by an ICE agent.
Yes. It is a real chkcken shit thing being done. But it's Trump, and after all, when it's not big time bullshit out of the man, it's little super-petty chicken shit instead.
Trump the variant, you could say.
In any event, now, this band of misfit individuals, will see "pseudojournalism" get its day in court, and unless they've facts discovered that Lemon somehow masterminded the thing, his being there, with a bona fide press background, is what journalism is about.
Crabgrass, it's editorial here, but Lemon had boots on the ground. As Bovino had boots on the ground (and tear gas canisters hanging over his heart).They were there. Lemon was dressed more like a normal human, but MY GOD, IN A CHURCH!!
Over all -- Big deal. They were there. The service ended up not being the same old shit where the young were dragged there and bored. Instead, it popped.
And in considering Lemon "there" and Bovino "there" the perplexing ongoing problem, is how sinister "there" was because Trump had a hardon against every of his percieved "enemies," including the entire State of Minnesota, which, somehow wronged the man by liking Biden better. And some voted for that pile.
____________UPDATE__________
Abbe Lowell is the lawyer Hunter Biden used, where vindictive prosecution was obvious and well argued, before a brick instead of a subtle perceptive judge, and the Easterwood Nine have the briefing already done. Change the names, but the cases are all the same. How the judge shopping shows up will be interesting, but while Justice is blind, expect that she'll set down the scales, and face-palm on the quality question for this prosecution happening. What else can Justice do, this one being what it is. IN CLOSING
FREE THE EASTERWOOD NINE!!!!! Chanting it as a mantra, try it. It can, when chanted long enough with a skilled mastered breathing pace, really buzz the mind.
And please, cheer for and support the new Minnesota criminal defense boutique.
They're news. Don Lemon now is news. Little else really is. And Epstein is alive in Tel Aviv. It was a double that got snuffed in the detention cell. Really. Epstein and Putin have teamed to run Trump as a meandering puppet. Xi applauds. Prove me wrong.
Well, perhaps a detail or two may not square, but as the dead Charlie said, Prove - Me - Wrong.
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| https://emptywheel.net/don-lemon-hires-minnesotas-top-public-integrity-prosecutor/ |
And when one person mentioned may not represent a household name, there is X at https://x.com/AAGDhillon - showing Dhillon is a Bondi. Equal in capability. Perhaps better in court.
At any rate, Wheeler does her usual thorough job, so go there, read it, follow her links, and realize she's more on top of things than crabgrass. Here you get feeling and a picture, there you get a story.
The bottom line is things are lawyered up, and will grind tediously to some resolution, likely by the time nobody really cares anymore.
