Posted on 12/20/2023 11:36:53 AM PST by Red Badger
Rep. Scott Perry, R-Pa. Has been ordered to give federal prosecutors more than 1,600 text messages, emails, and other communications related to the investigation of Donald Trump’s alleged alleged attempt to alter the results of the 2020 election.
On Tuesday, Politico reported that Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled most of Perry’s messages could not be withheld from prosecutors due to protections afforded to members of Congress.
Boasberg concluded that the 1,659 communications were not subject to the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
The clause prohibits prosecutors and courts from looking into official congressional business.
The court documents allege the messages appear to show Perry acted as an intermediary for Trump and his allies in the finals week of his presidency.
CNN reported: The judge looked at the messages in three broad groups – if they are with members of the executive branch, meaning Trump or others; if they are among congressional members; or if they are with individuals outside the government. The judge found that some of these messages should be protected, following directions from the appeals court above him.
The court found that communications about proposed legislation and the 2020 congressional certification of the Electoral College votes could be withheld from investigators if Perry wanted to protect them.
As Just The News Noted, the exchanges may fill in gaps in special counsel Jack Smith’s probe of the 2020 election and the Jan. 6, 2021, Capitol riot.
Perry has yet to decide whether he will appeal the decision.
Earlier this month, Special Counsel Jack Smith announced plans to use Trump’s White House cellphone and Twitter data in the forthcoming election trial.
Smith outlined his intention to call up to three expert witnesses to testify in the case against Trump.
The Daily Fetched reported:
The filing shows how prosecutors plan to use data obtained under warrant from X about Trump’s account, including location data.
“The government has provided its Notice of Expert Witnesses to the defendant,” reads the filing submitted to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, outlining each expert’s expertise and expected testimony.
According to the filing, the ‘experts’ will use the data to show how President Trump used his phones “throughout the post-election period” and on Jan. 6, 2021.
Politico noted, “While Smith described in the filing using the data to view images, websites, and locations, it’s unclear if he accessed the substance of Trump’s communications or if anything was shielded due to executive privilege or other limits.”
As The Epoch Times reported, Referred to as Expert 1, Expert 2, and Expert 3, the experts are anticipated to “aid the jury” in understanding the data and how it is visually presented on a map after being extracted from the White House phones of President Trump.
We keep losing. This sucks.
Maybe Perry can wipe the hard drive with a cloth?
“Boasberg concluded that the 1,659 communications were not subject to the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause”
Of course he did. Because he’s not a judge, but a political inquisitor.
As far as Jimmy Boasberg of San Francisco is concerned, he’s the Judge of All America.
“We keep losing. This sucks.”
Your tagline explains why. The retardigans just won’t fight.
Its easy to see that when the French revolution succeeded, heads had to roll.
Trump has nothing to hide - so what’s the big deal?
Didn't stop Colorado from preventing Trump being on the POTUS ballot in that state. California will be next, and when that happens, many more states will issue the same constraint. All for "nothing to hide".
Don’t panic - none of this lawfare will stick. President Trump will be on the ballot in all 50 states. He isn’t going to jail.
The point of all of this is to feed the narrative that President Trump has too much baggage. It’s all about trying to turn public opinion against him - and it is not working.
Before this is over the democrats will have completely destroyed the American justice system. It will never be the same.
Destroyed:
Executive privilege
Attorney Client privilege
Congressional immunity
I expect next will be the confessional
Perry is the lone conservative in the PA delegation, which makes him the lone conservative member of the House in the entire northeastern U.S.
Perry's district was gerrymandered back in 2018 by the PA Democrat Supreme Court, and it's a little surprising that he's managed to survive as long as he has since he is normally in the crosshairs every 2 years (2022 was an exception).
The district is pretty marginal though tilts slightly Republican, and it wouldn't take much to flip it over to some liberal Democrat scumbag in 2024:
Messages were lost in a boating accident...that is what I would tell them along with go pound sand!
Political activity by non-Democrats is a crime.
Wow, they really have the goods on Trump this time. Look, look he used his phone.
Is he going to ignore it, like Obama and his ilk always have?
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I was proud to call Freedom Caucus Chair Scott Perry my Congressman until the most recent redistricting.
I live close enough to the line that I still display his election signs.
Boasberg concluded that the 1,659 communications were not subject to the Constitution’s “speech or debate” clause.
**The clause prohibits prosecutors and courts from looking into official congressional business.**
District Judge James Boasberg another one that thinks his robe came with a crown.
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg stands as the figurehead of a legal system that soon will not be worth saving.
There’s a real short, concise, succinct answer… “Golf Foxtrot Yankee Sierra”
Even something as stupid as a democrat with its paramecium brain can figure that one out.
Something is rotten in Denmark...
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