JUST IN: DOJ Confirms Charges Against Don Lemon, Liberal Church Rioters Are Incoming

The Justice Department said it plans to charge internet personality and former CNN host Don Lemon after he disrupted a church service in Minnesota alongside anti-ICE rioters.

Harmeet Dhillon, the U.S. assistant attorney general for the Civil Rights Division, said Monday that Lemon will be charged under the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871, noting that he has already admitted he knew “exactly what was going to happen inside that facility.”

Dhillon said Lemon’s claim that he was acting as a journalist covering a story will not “shield” him from prosecution.

The statute makes it a federal crime to terrorize, intimidate or harm people who are exercising their civil rights. It was originally enacted to protect newly freed slaves. While the law has often been used in cases involving law enforcement, it can also be applied more broadly, including to bring conspiracy charges.

Dhillon pointed to how the Biden administration used the Klan Act to add conspiracy charges in cases brought under the Freedom of Access to Clinic Entrances Act of 1994.

“We will pursue charges in this case,” she told Benny Johnson. “In other cases, the Biden DOJ used the Klan Act conspiracy charges tacked on to the FACE act in the case of protests outside abortion clinics, to bring much longer sentences. So there are a number of tools available to us.” …