"No one is objecting to you standing outside of a church and protesting, no one is saying you can't protest the Trump administration's immigration policies or frankly our policies on anything else, Vance said. What you cannot do is go into somebody's house of worship and prevent them from exercising their First Amendment right to the free exercise of religion."
"We have a rock solid violation of the FACE Act, which is you were sticking a microphone in the face of a minister during the church service while the people you were with preventing people from leaving, Vance said. That's a violation of the law. That's not about the First Amendment. His comments come after Lemon livestreamed the wild moment anti-ICE protesters ran into Cities Church in St. Paul and sabotaged a service on January 18."
Vice President JD Vance argued the Trump administration has a strong case that Don Lemon broke federal law by recording and actively joining an anti-ICE protest that stormed a Minnesota church. Vance mocked Lemon on Megyn Kelly's program and rejected First Amendment defenses, emphasizing the distinction between lawful protest outside a house of worship and unlawful interference inside. Vance cited the FACE Act and described placing a microphone in a minister's face while protesters prevented people from leaving as criminal conduct. The incident followed a January 18 livestream in which protesters disrupted Cities Church after suspecting a pastor was a federal immigration agent. Critics have questioned whether Lemon did more than photograph.
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