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Two-tiered justice: Activist judges order release of 3 anti-ICE agitators who stormed church

January 24, 2026 | | Print Article

Cries of two-tiered justice were renewed as two more activist judges ordered leniency for leftists alleged to have trampled on First Amendment rights in Minnesota.

Questions of lawfare have been a constant in recent years between the indictments brought against then-former President Donald Trump, the ongoing obstruction of his administrative efforts and the treatment of Christians and conservative voters of all stripes.

Contrasted with the years of pretrial detention that many J6 defendants had been subject to for the breach of the U.S. Capitol building, Nekima Valdez Levy Armstrong, Chauntyll Louisa Allen, and William Kelly had all been granted release a day after being arrested for alleged conspiracy against rights in violation of the FACE Act over storming the Sunday services at Cities Church.

Appointed by then-President Joe Biden, U.S. District Judge Laura M. Provinzino ordered the release of Armstrong and Allen on Friday, denying the motion for an emergency stay after U.S. Magistrate Judge Douglas Micko had set the conditions for their release. Similarly, U.S. Magistrate Judge Shannon Elkins ordered the release of William Kelly who’d dared Attorney General Pam Bondi to “Come and get me …”

As it happened, Micko was the same judge who had reportedly refused to sign off on the Justice Department’s charges against former CNN personality Don Lemon who had been seen in video he’d posted detailing foreknowledge of the disruption. The judge had originally moved against a detention hearing in the cases of Armstrong and Allen before setting conditions of their release to include: prohibition from leaving Minnesota without approval by a probation officer; prohibition from contact with witnesses and victims; prohibition from possession of firearms and the like; prohibition from drawing closer to Cities Church than the public sidewalk closest to it all while under supervision by U.S. Probation and Pretrial Services.

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According to the criminal complaint brought against Armstrong and Allen, “‘a group of approximately 30-40 agitators, working together in a coordinated manner’ entered a church in St. Paul during a religious service and engaged in conduct that ‘disrupted the religious service and intimidated, harassed, oppressed, and terrorized the parishioners, including young children, and caused the service to be cut short and forced parishioners to flee the church out of a side door, which resulted in one female victim falling and suffering an injury.'”

Were the defendants to be convicted, 18 U.S.C. § 241 allows for up to 10 years in prison and a $250,000 fine.

Among those sounding off on the alleged two-tiered justice system made possible by activist judges in venues friendly to leftists, self-described CIA contractor Tony Seruga had shared Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele’s take on the problem involving impeachment and removal of “all of the corrupt Judges” while suggesting Provinzino, Elkins and Micko, “are the kinds of activist judges that need to be removed.”

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