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Supreme Court Refused Hearing Appeal From X Over Warrant In Trump Election Interference Case

Elon Musk embraces Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 05, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. This is the first time that Trump has returned to Butler since he was injured during an attempted assassination on July 13. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)
Elon Musk embraces Republican presidential nominee, former President Donald Trump during a campaign rally at the Butler Farm Show fairgrounds on October 05, 2024 in Butler, Pennsylvania. This is the first time that Trump has returned to Butler since he was injured during an attempted assassination on July 13. (Photo by Anna Moneymaker/Getty Images)


The U.S. Supreme Court has announced that they will not hear an appeal from the popular social media platform X on free speech grounds following a judge order in the election interference case against former President Donald Trump.

On Monday, the Supreme Court declined to hear a challenge against the order barring X from informing Trump about a prosecutor’s seizure of direct messages and other data associated with the former president’s Twitter account.

X argued that the order that blocked them from reaching out to Trump in regards to the warrant obtained by special counsel Jack Smith’s team had violated the First Amendment. 

They continued, explaining that the 45th president should have had a chance to exert executive privilege and if this was not reined in, the government could use similar tactics to invade other privileged communications.  

In their comments, two partisan electronic privacy groups urged the high court to consider the case from a First Amendment perspective.

However, prosecutors maintain that the business never provided evidence that Trump had utilized the account for official business, negating the need for executive privilege. Additionally, a lower court’s ruling claimed that informing Trump of this could have compromised the ongoing investigation.

In the indictment, the former president is accused of “encouraging” his followers to “attack” the Capitol on January 6th, 2021, by “spreading false information” about the election in the weeks prior. The indictment also claims that Trump had pressured then-Vice President Mike Pence to reject the certification.

However, Trump has consistently highlighted how he first posted a Tweet asking his followers to remain peaceful and to respect law enforcement.

The Supreme Court decided in July that Trump, in addition to all former presidents, receive broad immunity from criminal prosecution as an ex-president. That case is now slowly moving forward.

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