# Lemon Law

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Podcast: [Serious Trouble](https://stenobird.com/podcast/serious-trouble-5498851)
Published: 2026-01-31T14:53:01+00:00
Episode link: https://www.serioustrouble.show/p/lemon-law
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## Resource

This week Ken and Josh discuss how the Feds got an arrest warrant for Don Lemon after all. Before prosecutors got the grand jury indictment, they tried through some really irregular channels to get Lemon arrested more quickly. When a magistrate judge rejected an arrest warrant application for Lemon last week, rather than applying again or proceeding to the grand jury, prosecutors asked Judge Patrick Schiltz to overrule the magistrate, then asked an appellate panel to force Schiltz to rule on their motion right away, fearing that if Lemon wasn’t arrested immediately , there would be an epidemic of illegal church invasions. Schiltz took exception to this , and the appeals panel backed him up , though one of the appellate judges remarked that he thought all the arrest warrants were sufficiently supported but the government just didn’t need the weird emergency relief it was seeking. Also this week: we look at federal judges (including Schiltz) who are incensed that ICE isn’t promptly complying with their habeas corpus orders, and how this mess is downstream of rules that prohibit nationwide injunctions and are clogging some courts with individual lawsuits seeking relief from immigration detentions. We have an update on Minnesota’s 10th Amendment case — Judge Kate Menendez appears skeptical that she is in a position to provide the sweeping relief the state wants, though she does want more briefing on the threat letter from Attorney General Pam Bondi to the state . And in another case, an order from Menendez restricting ICE tactics has been stayed. In non-ICE news, it appears likely that Jeffrey Toobin will have to testify at Tom Goldstein’s criminal trial , though he has a good argument for limiting his testimony to fairly boring topics. Candace Owens says Turning Point USA…

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