MN - Journalist Don Lemon arrested for church protest, Minneapolis, 18 Jan 2026

[Smelly Squirrel]

Sorry to bring this up again, but does anyone know when the pretrial hearings begin for Don Lemon? TIA

Not hearings, but unless complex case is granted, the filing and disclosure deadlines are.

Government Disclosure due by 2/24/2026. Defendant Disclosure due by 3/3/2026. Motions due by 3/10/2026. Responses due by 3/24/2026. Notice of Intent to Call Witness due by 3/24/2026. Response to Notice of Intent to Call Witness due by 3/27/2026.

See doc 130 at

https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/72212459/united-states-v-levy-armstrong/?order_by=desc

Government Disclosure is due next week, but they don't want to have to show their weak case. The one long shot they have is retrieving something useful from the defendants' phones they seized, but I doubt that'll work. moo

 

[J. J. in Phila]

Here are the prosecution's motion to designate the case complex and the defendants' reply.

GOVERNMENT’S MOTION TODESIGNATE CASE ASCOMPLEX UNDER THESPEEDY TRIAL ACT OR, INTHE ALTERNATIVE, EXTENDDATE FOR DISCLOSURE OFDISCVOVERY

DEFENDANTS’ OPPOSITION TOGOVERNMENT’S MOTION FORCOMPLEX CASE DESIGNATIONAND NINETY DAY SPEEDY TRIALEXCLUSION

If granted, it would extend certain deadlines and prolong the case, which the prosecution wants because imo they know they have a bs case and brought it in bad faith.

According to both filings the prosecutors have 2000+ pages of documentation, in addition to video. That does not sound weak.

Something else is interesting. There are 9 defendants, but only six signed off on this. Lemon and Fort did not.

IMO.

 

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[Betty P]

On the pastor's left was a parishioner or lay person.
Georgia is standing quite a bit back. Her microphone is not visible in this picture, but I have seen it be barely visible in other pictures.

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‘I Might Get Arrested, People’: How MAGA media outlets are fueling Trump’s crackdown on the press.

How MAGA media outlets are fueling Trump’s crackdown on the press.

www.cjr.org

Those MAGA “media” people seem a little unhinged, to say the least

The MAGA media response turned from anger to glee when Lemon and Fort were arrested last week. They were indictedalong with seven others on allegations that they “conspired and agreed with one another and with other persons…to injure, oppress, threaten, and intimidate” multiple people. (The Justice Department initially had trouble bringing chargesagainst Lemon after federal magistrate and appellate judges rejected the case.) “These arrests have been hilariously fun to look at and laugh at,” Johnson said on his show. “When are we gonna get the Don Lemon mug shot?”

“Hey, congratulations.… It’s great that they finally got him,” Pool said on his podcast. “But what are we gonna do about the fact that there is an active insurgency? I mean, this is sedition, this is seditious conspiracy!”

Seditious conspiracy? That’s quite a leap. JMO

 

[CSIDreamer]

A private platform moderating content is legal and is not the same as government suppressing speech.

IMO, the government is not suppressing speech when it safeguards the equally important right to worship free of intimidation and interference.

 

[J. J. in Phila]

Meanwhile.

House Republicans advance bill to repeal FACE Act​

written by Kate Scanlon 2:57 PM June 12, 2025

House Republicans advance bill to repeal FACE Act

Abortion opponents said the Biden administration weaponized the law by not pursuing proportionate charges against those who vandalized pro-life facilities.

www.osvnews.com

The same guy introduced the bill in 2023. It is not going anyplace: https://www.congress.gov/bill/118th-congress/house-bill/5577

IMO.