I am grateful to the court for honoring the rule of law and holding the line against the government's attempts to trample on due process, Mahdawi, who is a permanent US resident, or green card holder, said in a statement. He continued: This decision is an important step towards upholding what fear tried to destroy: the right to speak for peace and justice.
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.
And so what we have all witnessed, and I think part of the horror of this, was that you saw a police killing, you saw a police murder of this woman. Was she engaging in civil disobedience? Yeah, maybe. But that doesn't carry a death penalty, Sykes argued, adding: And civil disobedience is not domestic terrorism. These words have consequences.
The I.R.S. said on Monday that churches and other houses of worship can endorse political candidates to their congregations, carving out an exemption in a decades-old ban on political activity by tax-exempt nonprofits.
