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It's significant.

I mean, it doesn't happen very often that a magistrate judge will refuse to sign off on those charges.

And it shows that perhaps the government is overreaching by going after Don Lemon as opposed to the other potential defendants.

And so it is significant.

Legal commentators have noted it as showing a weak case with respect to the FACE Act on Don Lemon specifically.

Yeah.

So the FACE Act was a law that was passed in the 90s by Clinton after a big sweep of attacks at abortion centers and people trying to get reproductive health care.

And it was passed with an intent to try to stop that, as well as certain religious freedoms and going after individuals who target the exercise of religious freedoms in the aftermath of another law as well that Bill Clinton passed called RFRA.

And the act criminalizes three kinds of conduct with specific purposes.

That is to say, using force, threats, or physical obstruction to achieve one purpose, which in the case of reproductive health centers is to try to like injure, impair, or intimidate someone in attempting to get those services, or in the context of religious freedoms, the same thing, but them exercising their religious freedoms.

And so that's like the conduct is either physical obstruction, threats,

or use of force.

And that's the intent they have to prove.

But there's some nuances we can get into.

Yes.

Those facts are going to be super important.

As far as we know, this is a private church.

And they entered into the church and started yelling and made it kind of difficult for them to continue with the proceeding.