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Trump’s Attorneys Make Solid Case For Freeing Julian Assange in Legal Filing
President Donald Trump’s attorneys made a solid case for preemptively pardoning Julian Assange in a motion to dismiss a WikiLeaks-related lawsuit against the Trump campaign.
In defense of the Trump campaign, the 32-page filing by Michael A. Carvin argues that the publishing of the DNC leak passes both aspects of the Bartnicki First Amendment Test.
The first part of the case law is that a defendant may not be held liable for a disclosure of stolen information if it deals with “a matter of public concern.”
Addressing this portion, Carvin’s filing asserts that there can be “no serious doubt” that the disclosures from WikiLeaks satisfied the “newsworthy” and “public concern” portion of the test.
The motion argues that ‘”punishing truthful publication in the name of privacy’ is always an ‘extraordinary measure’ — doubly so when the publisher did nothing illegal in obtaining the information.”
The second portion of the test requires that the speaker (or publisher) was not “involved” in the theft. Given that WikiLeaks does not steal or hack the documents that are provided to them, and most rational people would agree that all of their leaks have been newsworthy, the Bartnicki First Amendment Test is not only satisfied by the Trump campaign — but also by Assange and his organization.
“They certainly make no effort to show that the Campaign was ‘involved’ in the initial theft of the DNC emails, in effect conceding that the Campaign satisfies the second part of the Bartnicki First Amendment test. The dispositive question is thus whether the disclosure in this case dealt with ‘newsworthy’ and ‘public’ issues. There can be no serious doubt that it did,” the filing reads.
“That ends the case: The disclosure satisfies the First Amendment test.”
Not only that, but this! 👇🏻
Along with Trump’s lawyers, the State Department also inadvertently presented a solid case for the US government’s eight year long grand jury proceedings against Assange to come to an end. 😮
Wikileaks Tweet
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US government on why it has decided to close its eight year long grand jury proceedings against @WikiLeaks (expanded in 2017 to cover our series on the CIA). Wait, what?
Department of State Tweet
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We support a freedom of the press. When a nation clamps down on social media, we ask the question — what are you afraid of? We support the people of #Iran, and we support their voices being heard.
This relates to pizzagate because Wikileaks is who leaked the emails that lead us to discovering how sick these freaks are.
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Vindicator ago
Giving this the "Share!" flair. Like Trump's tweets on Iran, this is the sign of a sea change -- the War on Whistleblowers is coming to an end. I think we can expect many great leaks in the future. This also implicitly recognizes Assange as a journalist/publisher, which is the reverse of what Obama, Clinton and their international globetard cronies have been pushing. Bye bye MSM!
Sk8rminion ago
I think this is part of why anti-trumpers where leaking so much when trump first took office, he couldn't simultaneously stop the war vs whistle blowers, while also clamping down on people leaking partial politicized items without context to hurt the presidency.