Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon doesn’t care if people who obstruct worship services call themselves journalists. They’re still going to face the full penalty of the law.

“I don’t care if they’re a journalist or not. I’ve personally represented numerous journalists, and I’ve been a journalist,” Dhillon told The Daily Signal in an interview. “I highly respect the press and the First Amendment.”

“What I don’t respect is somebody violating somebody else’s First Amendment rights in their sanctuary, which is protected by federal law as well as the First Amendment,” she added, “and that’s what happened in this case.”

Don Lemon, a former CNN anchor who is now an independent journalist, has claimed that he covered the Jan. 18 invasion of Cities Church in St. Paul, Minnesota, as a journalist, and therefore is protected by the First Amendment guaranteeing freedom........

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