Lawyers for the former CNN anchor asked a judge to throw out the case, saying prosecutors had “acted on the president’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job.”
Lawyers for the former CNN anchor asked a judge to throw out the case, saying prosecutors had “acted on the president’s animus by filing unprecedented charges against a journalist for doing his job.”
Don Lemon, center, outside court in St. Paul, Minn., in February. “The record could not be more clear that Mr. Lemon has been a persistent target of President Trump’s ire before the events in Minnesota,” his lawyers wrote.
In a new tactic, federal immigration officials recently started saying they would criminally charge the elected county sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago.
In a new tactic, federal immigration officials recently started saying they would criminally charge the elected county sheriffs in Minneapolis and Chicago.
Tom Dart, the sheriff of Cook County, Ill., left, and Dawanna S. Witt, sheriff of Hennepin County, Minn., have both been given warnings, conveyed in a series of letters that federal agents began hand-delivering in early July.
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