Posted on 01/17/2024 2:11:56 PM PST by gattaca
Four Republican judges on DC appellate court condemned Special Counsel Jack Smith and Democratic judges for breaking the rules to secretly obtain Trump's Twitter data last year.
In January 2023, two months after his appointment as special counsel, Jack Smith applied for a search warrant to obtain all of the data associated with Donald Trump’s long-dormant Twitter account. Smith sought not just public posts but direct messages, drafted and deleted posts, and the identity of any individual with access to the account. Smith also asked for “all users [Trump’s account] has followed, unfollowed, muted, unmuted, blocked, or unblocked, and all users who have followed, unfollowed, muted, unmuted, blocked, or unblocked” Trump’s account.
The application was stunning in scope with no justification as to why the government needed such a limitless trove of information—particularly one that clearly ran afoul of Trump’s right to assert executive privilege. So, Smith neatly settled that matter by additionally asking for a nondisclosure order that prevented Twitter from notifying Trump about the search warrant for 180 days.
Beryl Howell, an Obama appointee and chief judge of the district court in Washington at the time, once again wielded her rubber stamp to give Smith what he wanted. The pair claimed that if Trump found out about the warrant, he might intimidate witnesses or stoke “violence.” At one point, Smith and Howell outlandishly insisted Trump might “flee from prosecution” if Twitter notified the former president.
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Bkmj
Where’s the GOP?
You mean the Gutless Old Pussies?
The GOP will burn this country down to keep Trump out of the White house.
“Four Republican judges on DC appellate court condemned Special Counsel Jack Smith and Democratic judges for breaking the rules to secretly obtain Trump’s Twitter data last year. “
Condemned. Is that all?
“why the government needed such a limitless trove of information”
To J6 all of us. duh
Uniparty does nothing.
It'll be a short ride.
Two things IMO that make women cray cray cray (they are already all cray cray) and that’s: 1) Hair coloring chemicals. 2) Their “parts” have dried up.
Just look at Hillary or Pelosi or Boxer and the list goes on.
There are exceptions like AOC who in her defense is a moron but has a nice rack.
Gee, I’d ask if it’s OK to talk like this but I don’t care...
After law school, Howell was a law clerk for Judge Dickinson Debevoise of the United States District Court for the District of New Jersey from 1983 to 1984.
This was the period when DNC stooge-judge Dickinson Debevoise was crafting the RNC consent decree which prevented Republicans from challenging the Democrat "vote" creation in the big cities.
Even after he retired, Debevoise came back to renew the consent decree until he died at age 91.
The POS Beryl Howell knew all about what was going on - probably even yukked it up about destroying election integrity in our now-defunct republic.
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