After being served the warrant, however, the company took several days to respond. Twitter then filed a motion to vacate the nondisclosure order on February 2, arguing the order violated the First Amendment, and refused to comply. The company demanded that U.S. District Court Judge Beryl Howell, who was overseeing the case at the time, block enforcement of the search warrant until the matter was resolved.
Instead, Howell found Twitter in contempt and fined the platform $50,000 a day, doubling for each day of noncompliance. Twitter still did not comply with the warrant until February 9, resulting in a total of $350,000 in fines.
Twitter appealed the ruling, but in July, an appeals court upheld Howell’s decision, the documents released Wednesday show.
I thought the “deep state” was only conjured when a Republican is President and they need a boogeyman to explain their failures. Wouldn’t scary libruls in the government right now just be… the state?
The Deep State doesn’t need to be conjured. It objectively exists. Regime mouthpieces like the New York Times run op-eds defending it.