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Boom! Lawyered

The Justice Department Tries to Prosecute Black Journalists

Boom! Lawyered

Rewire News Group

Immigration, News, History, Jeff Sessions, Reproductive, Racial, Trials, Law, Lgbtq, Supreme Court, Scotus, Government, Politics, Justice, Discrimination

4.8616 Ratings

🗓️ 5 February 2026

⏱️ 39 minutes

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Summary

The Trump administration is escalating its attacks on the First Amendment, and along with it, government accountability.

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0:00.0

Two, three, four.

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Two, three, four.

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Two, three, four.

0:11.8

Hello, fellow law nerds.

0:13.7

Welcome to another episode of Boom Lawyard, a Rewire News Group podcast hosted by the legal

0:18.6

journalism team that is encouraging all of the

0:21.4

Minnesotans and Philadelphians and Chicagoans and Angelinos to keep going. Keep protesting.

0:29.5

Keep watching ICE. I'm Rewire News Group's co-chief content officer, Imani Gandhi.

0:34.8

And I'm Jeff Peeklo, Rewire News Group's other co-chief content officer.

0:39.0

ReWire News Group is the one and only home for expert reprojournalism that inspires you to support

0:44.3

everyone showing up in their communities right now. And the BoomLoyard podcast is part of that mission.

0:49.9

So a big thanks to our subscribers and a welcome to our new listeners.

0:53.7

Now, you may have noticed that this season of Boom Lawyard has started with a new segment

0:57.7

called What the Fuck is Going On? Because seriously, people, what the fuck is going on?

1:03.6

Well, this whole episode is what the fuck is going on because the news moment that we're in right

1:09.1

now pretty much calls for it.

1:11.3

So unless you were under a rock last week or perhaps you were trapped under something heavy,

1:16.0

you heard that the Trump administration arrested two black journalists, three black advocates,

1:21.3

one of whom is a Minnesota Senate candidate, his name is Jamail Lundy,

1:24.7

and one white army veteran in connection with an anti-ice protest at

1:29.0

City's Church in St. Paul, Minnesota. Now, there were other people who were arrested, but we're

1:34.1

going to focus on the two black journalists, Don Lemon from CNN, and Minnesota Independent Journalist,

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