Federal judge rejects DOJ search warrants targeting journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort
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Guardian staff reporter
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Summary
A federal judge unsealed records showing the Department of Justice attempted to obtain search warrants targeting journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, along with three protesters involved in a demonstration in St Paul, Minnesota. Magistrate judge John Docherty rejected the warrants twice, issuing blunt opinions that officials failed to meet basic legal standards and omitted a federal law that could have made the warrants illegal. The DOJ later withdrew the requests.
Key quotes
· 3 pulledIn strikingly blunt opinions, magistrate judge John Docherty said officials didn't meet basic legal standards and chastised them for failing to mention a federal law that may have made some of the warrants illegal.
The Department of Justice later withdrew the requests.
A federal judge unsealed records showing that the Department of Justice tried and failed to get search warrants targeting journalists Don Lemon and Georgia Fort, as well as three protesters involved in the Cities church demonstration in St Paul, Minnesota, last winter.
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