Pillow salesman and Trump ally Mike Lindell loses court bid to reclaim phone seized by FBI, access warrant details

CNN ^ | 11/4/2022 | Katelyn Polantz

[Bloody Sam Roberts]

A federal judge in Minnesota has rejected Mike Lindell’s challenge to the FBI search and seizure of his phone in a 2020 election-related criminal probe.

Judge Eric Tostrud said Lindell, CEO of My Pillow and a prominent backer of former President Donald Trump’s false voter fraud claims, had not shown that the search was unconstitutional, and said he could not have his phone returned or get more access to details from the search.

“The Government has demonstrated a compelling interest in preventing the premature disclosure of search-warrant materials during its ongoing federal criminal investigation. Multiple factors here justify keeping the search warrant materials under seal,” the judge wrote.

[VAFreedom]

they’re doing it out of spite of course... it doesn’t take that long to clone that phone and have an exact copy of everything.

[ALX]

I stand corrected. I dud not check if this was a Federalist Society judge and just believed the other poster and you’re description of the Judges past does make him the classic McConnell stooge