The state of Minnesota is solidly run by the Democrat party, and its state attorney general, Keith Ellison, cannot be trusted to pursue justice.

Now, when it comes to “justice” that serves the purposes of the left, Keith Ellison is ALL over that. But when it comes to investigating fraud, or punishing protesters that commit theft and arson, well, Ellison has a much LOOSER version of right and wrong. For example, the protest invasion at a church in Minneapolis on Sunday looks to be a direct violation of the FACE Act, as well as the KKK Act. But Ellison is apparently not bothered by the breaking of these laws. First of all, one of the protesters is… wait for it… a staffer for the county prosecutor.

Jamael Lundy works as intergovernmental affairs coordinator for Hennepin County Attorney Mary Moriarty, is married to St. Paul City Council member Anika Bowie, and is running for a seat in the state legislature as a Democrat, according to his campaign website.

Lundy was interviewed by Don Lemon as a group of protesters gathered, holding an upside-down American flag, to plan the takeover of the worship service — inadvertently undermining the point that Lemon was trying to make, which was that the protests were not backed by local officials.

“People are fighting back and organizing, in large part without support from officials, local officials. There are some people who want to be involved, local officials, but they’re doing this all on their own, this is all grassroots,” Lemon said. Pulling a member of the crowd out at random, he asked: “Without giving out what the operation is, why are you out here?”

The man turned out to be Lundy, who answered: “I’m here to support our community activists. I’m currently a candidate for Minnesota State Senate District 65. I feel like it’s important if you’re going to be representing people in office, that you’re out here with the people as well.”

We’ll get to Don Lemon in a minute, but if the congregation and the church were looking for a defense of their rights to worship in peace, they apparently won’t find it in the Hennepin County Attorney’s office. But surely they could expect it from the top lawyer in the state, the attorney general, Keith Ellison? In a word – NOPE.

Your eyes are not playing tricks on you. That is Keith Ellison appearing on Don Lemon’s podcast yesterday, claiming that the protesters have a “First Amendment right” to disrupt the church service and harass the congregation.

Lemon asked Ellison about the church invasion, prompting this response:

The protest is fundamental to American society; this country started in a protest. It’s freedom of expression; people have a right to lift up their voices and make their peace. None of us are immune from the voice of the public. Quite honestly, I think that you got the First Amendment, freedom of religion and the freedom of First Amendment and freedom of expression. I think it’s just something you gotta live with in a society like this.

Ellison ignored the 1994 FACE Act, which made it to prevent people from exercising religious freedom at places of worship. It states: “Whoever by force or threat of force or by physical obstruction, intentionally injures, intimidates or interferes with or attempts to injure intimidate, or interfere with any person lawfully exercising or seeking to exercise the First Amendment right of religious freedom at a place of religious worship” could be prosecuted under the law.

“This administration is real tender about things when it comes to their own interest,” Ellison claimed. “But they don’t care about the same things when the things don’t lie in their favor. So they’re getting tender about a church service now.”

“They’re arresting people in clinics, schools, churches, anywhere they choose to do it,” he alleged. “They don’t really care about sacred and sensitive places unless it works in their favor.”

Since the article addresses the basics of the FACE Act, we should probably remind people why the Ku Klux Klan Act of 1871 exists.

The Ku Klux Klan Act made it a federal crime to deny any group or individual “any of the rights, privileges, or immunities, or protection, named in the Constitution.” To enforce the law, the President could suspend habeas corpus, deploy the U.S. military, or use “other means, as he may deem necessary.”

This pretty directly applies to what we are seeing now, where protestors are targeting churches and, because Minnesota prosecutors refuse to protect the 1st Amendment rights of their Christian citizens, the federal government is going to do so

— PoIiMath (@politicalmath) January 20, 2026

But Keith Ellison, as the Washington Free Beacon discovered, was a big supporter of the FACE Act when it applied to mosques.

Ellison appeared on Lemon’s YouTube show on Monday to discuss the protest, in which Lemon accompanied Minneapolis attorney Nekima Levy Armstrong, St. Paul school board member Chauntyll Allen, and other activists on “Operation Pull Up,” the Washington Free Beacon reported. The group disrupted services at Cities Church in St. Paul based on the belief that a pastor there works for ICE, shouting “ICE Out” and other slogans.

But Ellison insisted Monday that the FACE Act does not apply to the church operation, saying it usually applies to anti-abortion protests outside abortion clinics.

“The FACE Act is designed to protect the rights of people seeking their reproductive rights to be protected and so that people for a religious reason cannot just use religion to break into women’s reproductive health centers,” Ellison told Lemon.

But Ellison’s own record contradicts that claim. As Minnesota attorney general, he submitted a brief in a 2020 federal lawsuit that accused a Minneapolis woman of violating the First Amendment rights of parishioners at Dar Al-Farooq, a mosque outside Minneapolis, by filming them without their permission.

In 2015, as a House member, Ellison urged Obama civil rights chief Vanita Gupta to investigate whether a group of protesters in Phoenix violated the FACE Act by holding firearms during protests outside a Phoenix mosque.

“These demonstrators argue that they are exercising their First Amendment rights. What they fail to understand is that First Amendment rights are not absolute; they are limited to protect the safety and rights of others,” wrote Ellison.

This is my shocked face. Keith Ellison selectively interpreting the law to benefit his side of the aisle? Welcome to Minnesota!

The only possible justice left for Cities Church and its terrorized congregation – and it was only five months ago that a Catholic church was shot up in Minneapolis, leaving two children dead, so yes, this congregation had no idea what was going to happen to them and could not trust that this was a “peaceful” protest – is in the hands of the Department of Justice. Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon made the rounds on media yesterday, insisting that the DOJ was going to go after those who staged this church invasion protest.

No one has a right to protest by trespassing into a private house—especially a house of God almighty.

Freedom of the press does not protect journalists, nor anyone else, when they are actively committing crimes. @AGPamBondi’s @TheJusticeDept won’t stand for it! pic.twitter.com/4cLHdlu3Vk

— AAGHarmeetDhillon (@AAGDhillon) January 20, 2026

The reason we haven’t seen any arrests yet? Yesterday was a federal holiday, and the DOJ needs a federal warrant to make arrests. If Attorney General Bondi does not have a fire lit under her to get these warrants signed, sealed, and delivered, then she should resign. We have seen far too much talk and way too little action from the Attorney General. Yes, the wheels of justice move slowly, and the law can be complex, but this issue is cut and dried. The left loves the FACE Act when they successfully used it against pro-life protesters, but now that it could be used against these anti-ICE protesters storming a church during service, they’re going to find the proverbial shoe on the other foot.

There will be no help at the county level for this church. Keith Ellison has proved he has zero interest in enforcing the law at the state level. The DOJ has to come through in this case, or it will lose the confidence of the American public permanently.

Featured image: Keith Ellison (as Congressman in 2018), official portrait, public domain