Federal prosecutors secured a grand jury indictment against Don Lemon on conspiracy and FACE Act charges tied to his January 2026 coverage of an anti-ICE protest that disrupted a Minnesota church service, overriding earlier magistrate rejections of arrest warrants for lack of probable cause. Lemon entered a not guilty plea at his February arraignment before the same judge, with the case advancing amid broader enforcement actions against protest participants. While civil rights attorneys have flagged potential constitutional weaknesses in applying the FACE Act to journalistic activity and noted dismissals for some co-defendants on mistaken-identity grounds, no such resolution has occurred for Lemon. This procedural momentum under the current administration underpins trader consensus that the charges will remain intact.