'Trump DOJ goes into its Don Lemon case without a key tool: the courts' trust'
(MS NOW) "A motion from Lemon and Fort raises that bold claim in seeking disclosure of the secret grand jury proceedings against them. Their court filing underscores that there’s no good reason to presume good faith on the government’s part in President Donald Trump’s second term — and that there’s good reason to presume the opposite."
“ 'The extraordinary set of events that led to this indictment reveals a significant risk that the government misstated key facts or elements of the offenses charged during its presentation to the grand jury, as it has already done so publicly, calling into question the validity of the indictment,' the motion argued. It said Lemon and Fort were indicted after attending a church protest 'solely in their capacities as members of the press' and that they were charged only after courts rejected warrants for their arrest, Trump pressured the Justice Department and career prosecutors refused to be involved."
"Maintaining that their concerns about government misconduct aren’t 'abstract or speculative,' the defendants pointed to what they called 'a small but growing body of caselaw involving the precise situation we see here — the government engaging in highly unusual conduct simultaneous to political pressure to bring charges, and misstatements of law at the highest levels of government.' "
"Specifically, they cited a ruling in the since-dismissed prosecution of former FBI Director James Comey, in which a federal judge in Virginia granted the same relief Lemon and Fort are seeking in Minnesota."
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https://www.ms.now/deadline-white-house/deadline-legal-blog/don-lemon-georgia-fort-charges-minnesota-doj-trump