"John, I don't know how clear I could be about this, but I think everyone knows, an eighth-grader knows something about the First Amendment you know, freedom of speech, freedom of the press, freedom to do what you need to do. Before getting into the law, just as a person living in this country, we are in such different and bizarre times. This is heartbreaking to see what's happening here."
"In the event someone's going to be arrested, there should be some scintilla of law which supports and sponsors the arrest or gives probable cause. Understand what happened here, John. Understand the dynamic of going to a judge and asking the judge to evaluate to determine whether there's criminality, a judge saying no, you going to an appeals court and appeals denying that, but you're still moving forward. Where are we right now?"
Don Lemon was arrested in Los Angeles after attending a Minneapolis church to cover an anti-ICE protest. The Trump administration sought to charge protesters for storming a house of worship. Lemon and his legal team maintain he was acting as a journalist. A judge and an appeals court previously rejected DOJ attempts to bring charges, yet federal agents took him into custody Thursday night. CNN legal analyst Joey Jackson criticized the arrest as contrary to First Amendment principles, noting judicial denials and questioning probable cause. Jackson predicted the administration's case against Lemon will ultimately fail.
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