Posted on 06/09/2024 5:35:15 AM PDT by MtnClimber
The special prosecutor’s overreach and the trial judge’s open bias are equally disturbing.
Just when you thought the “swamp” judicial system could sink no lower, an Elon Musk-X petition to the Supreme Court reminds us about Jack Smith’s and a leftist judge’s complete disrespect for Americans’ constitutional freedom from intrusive government searches.
The information emerges in X Corp.’s petition for a writ of certiorari relating to a court order arising from a search warrant that special counsel, Mr. Jack Smith (yes, that one), served on X demanding data and records from former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account. The problem from X’s viewpoint was an unusual attachment included with the warrant: A nondisclosure order blocking Twitter/X from disclosing to former President Trump the fact that the government had seized his records.
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Last week, X Corp petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to review a trial court order that allowed government prosecutors to include an enforceable non-disclosure order as part of a search warrant.
However, the government’s bad behavior isn’t limited to the non-disclosure agreement. When X originally challenged Smith’s order, arguing that it violated both X’s and President Trump’s First Amendment rights, as well as Trump’s executive/presidential privileges, U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell was having none of it. What’s really amazing is her stated reason for refusing X’s petition:
X challenged the order, arguing it violated its First Amendment rights and noting that President Trump might have reason to claim executive privilege, or presidential privilege. The company wanted to alert the former president so he could assert the privilege, but U.S. District Judge Beryl Howell ruled against it, claiming during a hearing that the only reason X was issuing the challenge was “because the CEO wants to cozy up with the former president.” (Emphasis added.)
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Thank you.
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This one is simple.
Abolish the DC Federal Court System.
This can be done via the judicial committee, which now is run by our supposedly conservative buddy, JJ.
Buelller....buelllller....
it is shocking all the ways the left has broken the law to try to GET Trump!
Trumps tax returns were illegally leaked
They temporarily extended the statute of limitations just to GET Trump, and immediately moved it back
They turned a small misdemeanor into a felony by assuming Trump was guilty of some federal crime he was never even charged with much less convicted of!
They allowed some lying ho to sue Trump for 100’s of millions because Trump simply declared himself innocent!
Trump was never convicted of any rape, but the Judge assumed he was guilty.
Again, time and time again, Trump is not given the rights everyone else has to be assumed innocent until PROVEN guilty.
A rollback for these overreaching jurists is not enough. It should become standard HoR practice to impeach judges who affirm novel applications of law which are subsequently overturned. Once a dozen or so are impeached AND removed, the rest should come to realize it it best to stay within the letter of the law.
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