SCOTUS Won’t Stop Jack Smith’s Probe Of Trump’s Private Data

The Supreme Court will not halt Special Counsel Jack Smith’s review of private messages between former President Donald Trump and Twitter, now known as X.

On Monday, the nine-justice panel issued handed down their decision without explanation, declining to consider Trump’s challenge against Smith’s secret warrant.

The Department of Justice (DOJ) first sought the records in January last year, demanding a complete trove of private information including Trump’s search history, direct messages, account settings, and activity under the “@realDonaldTrump” username. According to The Hill, the government obtained a nondisclosure order to bar X from revealing the existence of the warrant, even to the former president.

“The company challenged the order, arguing the records were potentially covered by executive privilege and not being able to tell Trump violated the First Amendment,” The Hill reported. “Court filings show X at one point was fined $350,000 for not timely turning over Trump’s data.”

Attempts to block Smith’s surveillance in the lower courts, however, failed. The Supreme Court ultimately refused to hear another challenge to the warrant in Smith’s criminal case, which is related to the Capitol riot on Jan. 6, 2021. Last week, roughly a month before Election Day, U.S. District Court Judge Tanya Chutkan unsealed Smith’s 165-page report outlining prosecutors’ evidence against Trump. The move came once it was clear a trial would not convene before November.

X CEO Elon Musk campaigned with Trump on Saturday in Butler, Pennsylvania, at the exact site where the Republican presidential nominee was shot this summer. If Vice President Kamala Harris wins, Musk warned, “this will be the last election.”

“That’s my prediction,” he said, as the federal government’s censorship regime remains intact following the Supreme Court’s refusal to curtail the censorship industrial complex this summer.

According to The Wall Street Journal, the world’s richest billionaire has been donating tens of millions to conservative causes while remodeling X as an online platform for free speech.

Smith’s 165-page report is another anonymously sourced dossier, and it’s intended to lay the groundwork for a third Trump impeachment. In 2017, the Democrats hatched plans to impeach Trump on day one of his first term. If reelected, Trump will enter a second term already under a cascade of criminal litigation in which activist Manhattan prosecutors have already succeeded in saddling him with dozens of felony convictions.