India, Jan. 20 -- Assistant Attorney General Harmeet Dhillon announced Monday that the Department of Justice intends to pursue charges against journalist Don Lemon under the Ku Klux Klan Act, alleging that he participated in a mob of anti-ICE protesters who disrupted a Sunday church service in St. Paul, Minnesota.

Appearing on The Benny Johnson Show, Dhillon described the Klan Act as a powerful federal civil rights statute.

"The Klan Act is one of the most important federal civil rights statutes. Its a law that makes it illegal to terrorize and violate the civil rights of citizens. Whenever people conspire this, the Klan Act can be used," she said.

"Everyone in the protest community needs to know that the fullest force of the federal g...