The ruling class is the ruling class.
The Founding Fathers said that we have a government of the people by the people. D.C. begs to dissent. And by D.C., I mean the corrupt corpus of the federal government. The people ought to know their place and stop bothering the truly important people in the Biden administration.
“A federal appeals court has halted planned court-ordered depositions of three top Biden administration officials in a lawsuit the states of Missouri and Louisiana brought over alleged pressure on social-media companies to remove posts containing purported misinformation about the coronavirus, election security and other issues.”
Alleged? There’s nothing alleged about it. It’s long since been made public in its general outlines.
“A panel of the New Orleans-based 5th Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Monday that a district court judge in Louisiana erred by approving the depositions for Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency Director Jen Easterly and White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty, without examining in detail whether there were other means of getting the information plaintiffs are seeking to prove their claims.”
Like?
The suit filed in May by the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana claims President Joe Biden and various officials used pressure on social-media firms to deprive Americans of their First Amendment rights.
“Before any of the depositions may go forward, the district court must analyze whether the information sought can be obtained through less intrusive, alternative means, such as further written discovery or depositions of lower-ranking officials,” the appeals court declared in a five-page, unanimous order issued by Judges Edith Clement, Leslie Southwick and Stephen Higginson. “It is not enough, as the district court found, that these officials may have ‘personal knowledge’ about certain communications. That knowledge may be shared widely or have only marginal importance in comparison to the ‘potential burden’ imposed on the deponent.”
My favorite part is the “depositions of lower-ranking officials”.
How many times have judges ordered that Trump be deposed? Trump officials have repeatedly faced depositions. Trump officials who refused to appear before the Jan 6 committee have faced arrest.
But when there are serious reasons to believe that the Biden administration has been coordinating with tech monopolies on censorship campaigns, the response is to talk to “lower-ranking officials”, not the big boys and girls.
This tells you everything you need to know about the corruption of the system. And whom the system serves.
Pasaki must be furious.
Blatant double standards or selective enforcement, and a new aristocracy with new titles of nobility.
We’ve “progressed” to feudalism.
Not quite yet, but we’re getting there pretty fast.
This decision speaks volumes as to who isarbitrarily deemed subject to the rules of the judicial system and who is not
If they are too important to answer to the people – then they and the judges need to answer to the Tree of Liberty and it is very dry
We are getting closer and closer to the day when it will absolutely need to be watered.
And people wonder why D.C. and the Administrative State is now loathed by half the country.
Much of the other “half” is high on drugs or BS
No enemy of the USA would be dumb enough to nuke DC. It’s the safest city in the USA from that, but it’s not the threat of retaliation that makes it so.
Why not appeal all the way to the Supreme Court? Make Court show its true colors (probably Roberts would vote with the Democrats) so American People could figure out what to do next…every issue must be forced from now on, backing down is suicide, IMHO.
It’s been a long time but I don’t recall learning in law school that, in order to depose someone, you first have to show that there is no other way possible to obtain the sought information. It’s a ridiculous ruling that, in a sane world, should never have happened and which would immediately be reversed by the Circuit Court sitting en banc. Of course, we no longer live in such a world.
“No one’s above the law” is so last week. Don’t worry, it’ll be back in a week or so.
What is a “hostile takeover”?
Is it anything like an enemy infiltration & hijacking of a government?
BUT TRUMP WAS NOT TOO IMPORTANT?!?!
TODAY’S DEMOCRATS: LIARS, THIEVES, CRIMINALS, TRAITORS ALL
BUT TRUMP WAS NOT TOO IMPORTANT?!?!
TODAY’S DEMOCRATS: LIARS, THIEVES, CRIMINALS, TRAITORS ALL
Four whole years we put up with the usual gutter level Media coverage of Trump now with Biden they don’t say a thing like it was under eight years of Clinton(Bill)and Eight years of Obama(They worshiped Obama like a False God)we all know that the Media gutter dwellers kissed Obamas Rings like they did with Clinton and now Biden and they cover up for their Dirty Deeds and swoon for Biden and he lies like Baron Munchausen about our nonsecure Boders and Lousie economy
A protest at the 2100 block of N. Pollard St in Arlington VA would be in order. According to JoJo Cabbage Brain Biden, unless you have Secret Service protection, it’s just part of the process.
Great picture of the young George III. Maybe we should have kept him; compared with what we have now he was a pussycat.