The Supreme Court refused to hear Elon Musk’s X Corp.’s appeal on Monday, citing its argument that special counsel Jack Smith illegally accessed Donald Trump’s social media account without warning the former president.
In July, X Corp. petitioned the Supreme Court to establish under what conditions a technology corporation might be forced to turn over information about its users while being prohibited from informing those clients that they are under investigation.
The court did not issue a remark on Monday, and there were no dissenting opinions.
Last year, Smith’s team used a “nondisclosure order” to prevent X Corp. from informing Trump that prosecutors were using a search warrant to obtain private communications from Trump’s X (formerly Twitter) account, including direct messages, location data, and drafts from the weeks before the January 6 insurrection.
When X Corp. appealed the decision, they were held in contempt and fined $350,000. Authorities said that notifying Trump about the search would undermine the evidence.
An unsealed brief from Smith’s team disclosed last week how the prosecution planned to highlight Trump’s alleged interference in the election using tweets from the Republican nominee’s personal X account during his January 6 trial.
Elon Musk’s X Corp. fined
X Corp. was fined $350,000 and placed in contempt for disputing the judgment. According to investigators, informing Trump about the search could compromise the integrity of the evidence.
The defense in Trump’s January 6 trial planned to utilize tweets from the Republican nominee’s personal X account to demonstrate his alleged election involvement, according to an unedited explanation offered by Smith’s team last week.
In addition to attacking those attempting to disseminate factual election information and casting doubt on the validity of the 2020 election results, Trump’s tweets encouraged people on their way to Washington for the violent rally and aided the outgoing president’s pressure campaign against Vice President Mike Pence.
At 2:24 p.m. On January 6, 2021, rioters seized the United States. Trump wrote, “Mike Pence didn’t have the courage to do what should have been done in order to protect our country and our constitution, giving states an opportunity to certify a revised set of facts, not the phoney or inaccurate ones that they were previously requested to certify. The USA demands the truth!”
This tweet was then read to the Capitol throng, which chanted, “Hang Mike Pence! According to the filing, Pence was escorted to a secure area shortly after Trump tweeted. When Trump learned that Pence had been brought to safety, he reportedly said, “So what?””
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