A challenge by Elon Musks’ X platform to a sentence obliging it to hand over data from former president Donald Trump’s twitter account was dismissed by the US Supreme Court on Monday.
The decision was made by the court without dissent or comment on the court’s first day after its summer break.
The challenge stated that the warrant used by special Counsel Jack Smith represented an violation of executive privilige by forcing the company to sign a non-dosclosure order prohibitting Twitter from informing the former President from disclosing the existence of the warrant.
“The First Amendment did not justify petitioner’s refusal to comply” with the special counsel’s warrant “before litigating its separate challenge to the nondisclosure order,” the government argued in its case.
The information contained in the account was used as part of 2020 election proceedings against Trump.
By Staff
