A Spicy Legal Meatball and Why Singing Is Anti-Fascist
About 17 assistant U.S. attorneys remain in Minnesota following a wave of departures from the office at the start of the year. Joe Thompson, a former prosecutor in the Feeding Our Futures fraud case, resigned last month and has joined Don Lemon’s defense team as the Justice Department seeks to prosecute him. Contributor and celebrated local journalist Winter Keefer joins host Sean McPherson to break down the fallout and all the spicy legal drama. Later, the team chats with vocalist Liz Digitale Anderson to talk about her organizing with Singing Resistance and the role of song in revolutionary and anti-fascist movements.
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Learn more about the topics discussed in today's episode:
- Former federal prosecutor Joe Thompson joins Don Lemon’s defense team in church protest case (Star Tribune)
- Six Prosecutors Quit Over Push to Investigate ICE Shooting Victim’s Widow (New York Times)
- Another wave of departures in Minnesota’s U.S. Attorney’s Office (Star Tribune)
- Attorneys raise concern over questions about Trump policies on federal prosecutors' job applications (CBS News)
- What is the FACE Act, an obscure law used to prosecute Don Lemon? (MS NOW)
- Statement from the Minnesota Star Tribune, Minnesota Public Radio, the Minnesota Reformer, Minnesota Spokesman-Recorder, Sahan Journal, Center for Broadcast Journalism and Minnesota Newspaper Association (Star Tribune)
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Singing Resistance: Songs of Defection for ICE Agents (City Cast Twin Cities)
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