Supreme Court Declines Case for Smith’s Access to Trump’s X Account

The Supreme Court has just issued a roadblock to Special Counsel Jack Smith.

Smith was hoping the Supreme Court would step in regarding Smith's efforts to get access to Trump's X account data.

The court has decided to sidestep that landmine, so Smith will have to fight this out elsewhere.

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The dispute is over Smith’s office working to obtain the records from Trump’s X account while at the same time requesting that X not tell Trump that the DOJ was seeking these records.

To some, that may considered a violation of privacy, but this could wind up being a landmark case in just how much access the government can have to all of our social media history, not to mention other messaging apps.

With the Supreme Court ruling against taking the case, the lower court ruling of a non-disclosure order being in place for six months will hold.

It was rather amusing reading the report from CBS News on this, which continued to report, “The court's conservative majority ruled in July that Trump is entitled to some immunity from criminal charges stemming from official acts taken while he was president.

“Proceedings in the case are continuing before a federal district court in Washington, which is now weighing whether Smith's slimmed-down allegations in the case against Trump comply with the Supreme Court's opinion.”

That is just blatantly wrong.

What the Supreme Court did in that ruling was regurgitate previous rulings that found that official acts of the president are immune from prosecution.

The ruling did not grant Trump any immunity whatsoever.

The court kicked the case back to the lower courts to define the actions in question to define them as acts of a president or that of a private citizen-candidate, which is what Smith attempted to do in his superseding indictment.

Now, it will be up to Judge Chutkan to categorize the alleged crimes for further prosecution.

Reporting like that in the mainstream media is exactly why so many people are misinformed these days.