( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “be an issue.” The Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump. [CutID: <Cuts> SCOTUS-X-TRUMP-house-q-TUEam.mp3 Time: 25s Title: SCOTUS-X-TRUMP-house-q-TUEam Out-cue: be an issue] TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House […]
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Supreme Court won’t hear appeal from X over warrant in Trump case
( ) -q-25- UNDATED (Correspondent Jeremy House) “be an issue.”
The Supreme Court says it won’t hear an appeal from the social media platform X over a search warrant prosecutors obtained in the election-interference case against former President Donald Trump.
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TAG: Correspondent Jeremy House reporting. A lower court also found that telling Mr. Trump could have jeopardized the ongoing investigation.
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VERBATIM: The company says a nondisclosure order that blocked it from telling Mr. Trump about the warrant obtained by special counsel Jack Smith’s team violated its First Amendment rights. It also argued that the former president should have had a chance to assert executive privilege. Prosecutors, though, say the company never showed Mr.Trump had used the account for official purposes, so executive privilege wouldn’t be an issue.