(PJ Media) 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.
A copy of the ruling that columnist and attorney Jonathan Turley shared recounted Twitter’s protest of the nondisclosure as violating both the First Amendment and the Stored Communications Act. Twitter also argued that the “district court abused its discretion by holding Twitter in contempt and imposing the sanction.” As noted above, the new ruling sided with the previous court decision, not Twitter.
Not even Donald Trump was informed of the search warrant for his Twitter account, which was part of an ongoing and highly controversial Department of Justice (DOJ) probe into the former president. Jack Smith’s investigation has so far resulted in three indictments against Trump, which have been slammed as bogus or partisan election interference by some Republicans.
The new court ruling states:
