Judge orders Twitter to reveal identity behind account that started Seth Rich conspiracy

The Hill ^ | 10 08 2020 | Chris Mills Rodrigo

[a fool in paradise]

Under common law and according to the definition of this defamation, deceased individuals cannot be defamed. Defamation is defined as an act or statement that damages one’s reputation. The dead do not have reputations to damage. ... Likewise, the estate of a deceased person cannot be liable for the defamation of the dead.

Can Dead People Be Defamed? - Minc Law

[a fool in paradise]

“The law is a ass”

[A_perfect_lady]

No one needed to “start” that theory; it occurred to millions of people simultaneously. Emails leaked? Kid who works there gets killed about the same time? Oh, crap!

[SteveH]

apparently the dead now vote, so why not grant standing based on defamation of the dead? see, it all starts to make sense...

[virgil]

I don’t get where the defamation is here. It sounds more like this case is an attempt to suppress 1st amendment rights. To hush people up.

[ptsal]

Remember Seth !!!

[Revel]

That account allegedly forged FBI documents

Well what is the official word on that. Not that it means much.

[Valpal1]

Apparently, they also said Aaron Rich was also involved, so he does have standing.

[Valpal1]

But what if it was the other brother that did it (using Seth’s log in) and they killed the wrong one.

Would you stay quiet then?

[boxlunch]

That is probably why Twitter is not cooperating. Definitely not to protect a conservative who first published the theory

[escapefromboston]

How is it a conspiracy theory when there is no “official” theory over who killed Seth? They never arrested anyone.

[kiryandil]

Is the United States District Court for the Northern District of California the new Supreme Court?

Inquiring minds are starting to ask that very question.

• Magistrate Judge (ND of California) Blocks Administration Order to Ban China’s WeChat [9/20/2020]
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• Federal judge (ND of California): IRS can't keep coronavirus money from inmates [10/06/2020]
• Magistrate judge (ND of California) orders Twitter to reveal identity behind account that started Seth Rich conspiracy [10/08/2020]

"Was that ruling from the Northern District of California? Or was it from some lower court, like the Supreme Court?"

Looks like John Roberts has got some competition...

     

[Rebelbase]

So what happens when Twitter reveals the name on the account was ‘Mike Hunt’ or ‘Hugh Jorgan’ and only posted from public IP addresses?

[kiryandil]

Ftroop won’t get involved unless there’s a mother holding a baby to snipe, or women and children to burn.

[kiryandil]

Don’t be dissing my guy Emerson Bigguns...

[a fool in paradise]

It’s a conspiracy theory to allege that he was killed by mysterious robbers who didn’t take anything but his life.

[kiryandil]

Obama judge....

Well, yes - and no.

This is one of those "disguised" Obama judges.

She's a Northern District of California magistrate judge:

In the United States federal courts, a magistrate judge is a judicial officer authorized by 28 U.S.C. § 631 et seq. They were formerly known as U.S. commissioners, and then as magistrates.

Magistrate judges, as they have been designated since 1990, are appointed by the life-term federal district judges of a particular court, serving terms of eight years if full-time, or four years if part-time, and may be reappointed.

Magistrate judges conduct a wide range of judicial proceedings to expedite the disposition of the civil and criminal caseloads of the United States district courts.

Congress set forth in the statute the powers and responsibilities that could be delegated by district court judges to magistrate judges.

To achieve maximum flexibility in meeting the needs of each court, however, Congress left to the individual courts the actual determination of which duties to assign to magistrate judges.

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Magistrate judges are appointed by the judges of a particular district court, with the chief judge at the time having a greater say in the appointment.

ND California is an Obama-Clinton court, so the Obama-Clintonites certainly appointed this openly gay magistrate judge, who passed all their flaming Commie fanatic Democrat partisan litmus tests.

But the former Musloid Sh*tweasel-In-Chief didn't do the dirty deed himself.

[grey_whiskers]

So what happens when Twitter reveals the name on the account was ‘Mike Hunt’ or ‘Hugh Jorgan’ and only posted from public IP addresses?

...or the infamous Heywood?

[House Atreides]

Obama judge....
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Well, a magistrate judge for the District Court for the Northern District of California - a District Court with 11 Obama appointed judges, 2 Clinton appointed judges and 1 Bush appointed judge. So yeah... Obama judge.

[House Atreides]

“So what happens when Twitter reveals the name on the account was ‘Mike Hunt’ or ‘Hugh Jorgan’ and only posted from public IP addresses?”
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Or possibly ‘Me Lay Lo’?