Imagine voting for someone who used the federal government to prosecute reporters who did nothing but expose your corruption.
When they say the reporters would have been compelled to testify, could that mean they take the stand and say “Lol, fuckoff no”?
In the hypothetical situation where it somehow got to that point because a judge said “yeah, this is cool, put them on the stand” that would probably be contempt of court.
A Justice Department lawyer, Sean Buckley, cast the government’s missteps as inadvertent errors and said: “No one was trying to pull a fast one.” Buckley apologized for other subpoenas that sought records for phone numbers belonging to one reporter’s mother and two of the journalists’ spouses.
“That was an error, judge, which we own,” Buckley said. “It was a consequence of trying to move quickly.”
“These things are starting to pile up,” Subramanian said, becoming increasingly testy.
Not only just going after the reporters in a meritless and blatant attack on First Amendment rights, but even pursuing information on a mother and spouses.
Was this really an “error” or fascist behavior?
Good chance they used AI to write the subpoenas.
TACO
