The selective prosecution inherent in this case is insane. NWH
Posted on 04/01/2023 6:36:19 AM PDT by Tolerance Sucks Rocks
Douglass Mackey, who went by the alias Ricky Vaughn on social media, was convicted by a federal jury on Friday for a “scheme to deprive individuals of their constitutional right to vote,” according to a statement from the Justice Department.
Mackey was charged one week after President Joe Biden assumed office and roughly four years after his purported offenses. The Justice Department claimed that Mackey had conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote.
“Mackey has been found guilty by a jury of his peers of attempting to deprive individuals from exercising their sacred right to vote for the candidate of their choice in the 2016 Presidential Election,” United States Attorney Breon Peace remarked in the statement. “Today’s verdict proves that the defendant’s fraudulent actions crossed a line into criminality and flatly rejects his cynical attempt to use the constitutional right of free speech as a shield for his scheme to subvert the ballot box and suppress the vote.”
James Lawrence, an attorney for Mackey, previously said in an interview with The Daily Wire that his memes were satirical and were therefore not relevant to the law he purportedly violated. Mackey could serve as many as 10 years in prison after he is sentenced.
The Justice Department said that Mackey had worked with other influential Twitter users between September 2016 and November 2016 to “disseminate fraudulent messages” which persuaded voters for Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton to cast their ballots via phone or social media. One image depicted a black woman standing in front of an “African Americans for Hillary” sign and said “Avoid the Line. Vote from Home,” “Text ‘Hillary’ to 59925.”
Some 4,900 unique telephone numbers texted the hotline, according to the Justice Department...
(Excerpt) Read more at dailywire.com ...
“jury of his peers?”
He lived in Florida. The trial was in NYC.
NYC!
That should not be any sort of crime.
What is a crime is that Democrats are so stupid and lazy that they thought a text could substitute vote for them.
The selective prosecution inherent in this case is insane. NWH
Hilariously (but not surprisingly) the legacy media thinks this direct assault on the First Amendment is just ducky.
As long as they get to continue THEIR election interference.
“injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their right to vote.”
That could almost apply to anyone who has an opinion opposite of THEM. Kind of like Trumps contempt of Congress. or, transgendered feeling threatened by questions or even our freedoms.
Show me the man and I will show you the crime.
Headed to the Supreme Court
More here:
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/4142344/posts
Anyone think PDJT would get a walk with a NYC jury?
Isnt this how Rachel Maddow avoided libel? Satire?
When will the FBI and its acolytes be charged with election interference, which was decisive in 2020? 50 agents onsite censoring the Hunter Biden story at Twitter right before the 2020 election; paying social media at least $ 3 million of our money for staff help in censoring. Hiding the Hunter Biden laptop for 3.5 years without doing a damned thing about it. The State AG should bring the case in Alabama, Oklahoma or Wyoming just as the “justice” Department brought this idiotic case that had no proven deterrence to voting before a left wing jury in NY city.
Trump knew about all this and refused to fight.
This — more than the Trump indictment — should be the most chilling legal proceeding of all. It goes to the very heart of our right to free speech and could destroy literally everything our country was built on in one fell swoop...
Yes. That POS should be arrested for election interference. He is guilty as sin.
Just another attack on first amendment rights. Now they say Trump will be under a gag order. That’s always been wrong. The government cannot deny citizens’ rights without a conviction for an actual crime. Government officials that abuse citizens’ rights must be removed from their positions, lose their pensions, imprisoned, and banned from working in government for life. One strike and they are out.
No doubt the indictments are just waiting to be released for those ‘above the law’ type folks.
Yep.
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