Minnesotans are familiar with the perils of “snow blindness,” a temporary blindness caused by overexposure to ultraviolet rays from the reflection from snow and ice. It appears that Minnesota politicians and prosecutors have a type of mob blindness, where they cannot see crimes committed in front of them by the far left. That condition appears to be tragically evident in St. Paul, where City Attorney Irene Kao made an absurd denial of any criminal activity at the demonstration in the City Church on Jan. 18th. While claiming that there were no observable crimes, Kao’s decision just happened to be enormously popular with the mob-driven politics and polling in her state.
In January, dozens of anti-ICE protesters, and former CNN journalist Don Lemon, descended upon the church and disrupted a mass because a church official had connections to ICE.
The demonstrators could have been charged with such offenses as disorderly conduct, interfering with a religious observance, knowingly participating in a noisy assembly and making or continuing a disturbing or excessive noise.
There was a demonstrator who was able to get her misdemeanor charges dismissed earlier. However, Emily Phillips was arrested for her conduct outside of the church and actually responded to police demands that she stop using her bullhorn.
Her case is a good point of comparison. Protesting outside is vastly different from entering a church or event to disrupt it or shout down speakers.
These demonstrators entered a church, refused to leave when told to do so, and abused parishioners while stopping the services.
Kao offers little more than a shrug: “Following a careful evaluation of the video footage, investigative reports, and other available materials, prosecutors determined that the current evidence is insufficient to meet that standard for criminal charges under Minnesota state statutes.”
There are 39 people still charged by the federal government under the FACE Act.
Kao insisted, “The right to peacefully protest is protected, as is the right to exercise one’s religious beliefs. Balancing these equally important rights is paramount to our decision today.”
This is not protected free speech. It is conduct. Indeed, it is criminal conduct.
While Kao stressed that there was no property damage, it is not required under these criminal charges.
What is missing is not the basis for criminal charges but the will to prosecute them. Once again, Democratic politicians are yielding to the mob and refusing to see the criminal conduct.
It is reminiscent of CNN national correspondent Omar Jimenez reporting live from Kenosha, Wis., with a raging fire in the background over a chyron reading, “FIERY BUT MOSTLY PEACEFUL PROTESTS AFTER POLICE SHOOTING.”
These politicians and state prosecutors hope to ride this rage wave back into power in Congress and the White House. Indeed, some have told voters to “let your rage fuel you.”
We have seen this pattern before in history. Establishment figures often try to harness the rage of the mob, only to be ultimately consumed by the rage themselves.
Irene Kao’s decision is a cynical concession to the mob. It is a decision that will give the Minnesota mob a further sense of license.
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. He is the author of the bestselling books “The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage” and “Rage and the Republic: The Unfinished Story of the American Revolution.”
Not a stellar moment in the law, but what strikes me about this is the sense I get that the persons who disrupted services and scared a good number of people are to be coddled like little children. I do not know why I have this impression. I would like to be wrong! But it seems that in Minneapolis, where conflagrations are considered to be mostly peaceful, anything short of burnings are just trifles.
It’s just commies going to bat for other commies in violation of the law.
georgie goes silent and disappears after being challenged about whether he is === or ever was a lawyer.
A serial fabricator demands that you give an example of something it fabricated. Suppose you give one.
What do you think its response will be?
Looks like this is the time of the day when all the Chinese Communist Party bots wake up and start posting lies about President Trump.
Estovir, maybe some day you’ll wake up and realize Trump lies about everything.
Er, scratch that. I doubt if you’ll wake up.
“Trump lies about everything” is the kind of brain-dead stupidity uttered by sheltered Leftists who have never left mommy’s basement and never listen to anything but left-wing garbage media.
And I’m not estovir.
This is so insanely corrupt, I can’t even believe it.
More than half the donors to Trump’s $400 million White House ballroom just won over $50 billion in new federal contracts in six months.
And here’s the part that should make your blood boil.
Sixteen of these 27 donors were facing federal enforcement actions, antitrust reviews, labor cases, securities charges. Many of those cases have been quietly dropped or scaled back since Trump took office. You write a check, your legal problems disappear. That’s not a coincidence.
The White House won’t even release the full donor list. They’re hiding it on purpose, because daylight is the one thing pay-to-play can’t survive. A federal judge already ruled ballroom construction has to stop until Congress authorizes it.
Government is supposed to serve the people, not auction itself off to the highest bidder. When access goes to whoever pays the most, working families always end up paying the price.
We either end the corruption, or the corruption will end us.
‘Drain the swamp’? What a joke! So much corruption, the media can only cover half of it.
Call the police, Karen!!!
Car 54 Where Are You???
Being called ‘Karen’ by Estovir is like being called a ‘fraud’ by convicted frauds like Trump.
Awww, has Trump Derangement Syndrome fried your brain? Poor psychotic schlub.
This came from what new source?
Im sorry but, I am a bit confused? If the donor list is private? Then how do you know that 16 of the 27 donors were facing criminal charges??
Communist protect their riff-raff, at least until they take power, then they imprison or kill those same people. Too dangerous to the Communist leadership to keep around. Prison camp or firing squad is in their future.
The above is one of those stupid comments merely for the sake of filling space and for no other reason.
A federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump referred Justice Department attorneys to a disciplinary committee Friday after condemning them for misconduct so severe she said it had shaken her faith in the DOJ entirely.
U.S. District Judge Mary McElroy of Rhode Island issued the referral under the court’s Local Rule 210(b), citing both representations made by the respondents’ attorneys and the findings of her May 14 order — a 24-page takedown of DOJ conduct in a case involving a subpoena seeking the medical records of minor patients who received gender-affirming care at Rhode Island Hospital.
In that order, McElroy found that DOJ had “misrepresented and withheld information” from both her court and a federal court in Texas, where she said the department had engaged in blatant forum shopping to find a friendlier venue for its demands.
The judge saved some of her sharpest language for DOJ’s courtroom behavior, writing that a senior attorney “sat silently by” during a hearing while a junior colleague — someone who had been practicing law for approximately six months — “was forced to answer questions about DOJ’s blatant disregard for the proper course of negotiations.”
A declaration filed by a senior DOJ official in the Texas proceeding, McElroy found, was “clearly misleading, if not utterly false.” She called DOJ’s “reckless disregard for the duty of candor owed” to a federal court “appalling,” and a serious breach of professional ethics.
“DOJ has proven unworthy of this trust at every point in this case,” McElroy wrote.
She also quashed the subpoena entirely and enjoined DOJ from seeking, receiving, or using any patient-identifying records from Rhode Island Hospital, finding the subpoena lacked a congressionally authorized purpose, was issued in bad faith, and violated children’s constitutional right to informational privacy.
Recall Irene Cow
When this happens again, as it surely will, those “protestors” have a get out of jail free card provided by this buffoons failure to prosecute the current case.
WOW In CALIF to beat all
A California jury deadlocked on Thursday over a woman charged with crimes for posting a video criticizing an abortion clinic.
Most jurors believed Anastasia Rogers did not break the law when she posted an August Instagram video about how Planned Parenthood seeks to “unalive” babies in San Francisco, according to court records and media reports.
Nice the see the jury used their heads.
I predict the prosecutor will re-file charges and get a new jury. We can’t have any anti-abortion speech around here, right? The process is the punishment. Let this be a warning to anyone else who thinks they have 1A protections to speak their mind about abortion! Not in deep-blue California.
“My Body, My Choice?”
Fetus’ Body, Fetus’ Choice
And here are some bonus scientific facts that prove it’s not just an organ or part of the mother.
During its early stages of development, the placenta of the unborn child secretes neurokinin B-containing phosphocoline molecules, which protects the child from detection by its mother’s immune system, because it can be interpreted as a foreign body and is subject to attack. This is because the fetus is of non-identical genetic material to the mother due to their different DNA.
Also present in the unborn child are lymphocytic suppressor cells which stop interleukin 2 (IL2) cells from signalling cytotoxic T cells to kill the child. The purpose of IL2 cells is to distinguish between self and non-self (parts of the mother and foreign parts). The lymphocytic cells would not need to inhibit the response of the cytotoxic T cells if the IL2 did not signal the feuts as a foreign body. This would not occur if it was one of her own organs because the response would not be initiated.
An organ does not have its own organs. The fetal heartbeat begins at around 22 days after fertilisation as I said earlier, and brain waves are detected at about six weeks, which means the unborn child has a heart and a brain. At seven weeks, all other organs are present, although not fully developed, which would mean not only did the mother have an organ with different DNA to her, but this organ also has its own organ systems, and so the mother has an extra heart, brain, stomach, liver, etc.
– Emma Greenland-Broadsmith