The Biden administration seems to love attacking the First Amendment. The latest example is that the Biden Justice Department’s Special Counsel Jack Smith served a search warrant on Donald Trump’s Twi.
The Biden administration seems to love attacking the First Amendment. The latest example is that the Biden Justice Department’s Special Counsel Jack Smith served a search warrant on Donald Trump’s Twitter account — and prohibited the company from disclosing that warrant to anyone, even Trump himself.
Twitter, now known as X Corp., objected that the nondisclosure order violated the First Amendment. Indeed, Twitter/X appealed a court decision and the $350,000 fine it paid after first delaying the release of the information that Smith wanted and finally fulfilling the request several days late. Unfortunately for X, the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the previous holding and fine in a unanimous decision Wednesday, according to the New York Post.
The social media company had argued that an order prohibiting the company from either notifying anyone about the existence of the search warrant or what was sought by it violated the First Amendment, and that the lower court judge should have waited to enforce the warrant until the objection was dealt with.
