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May 17, 2024
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Lawfare

House GOP Introduces ‘Let Trump Speak Act’ to Protect Free Speech Rights Against Gag Orders.

House Republicans are introducing the ‘Let Trump Speak Act’ to stop judges from gagging the former president and other criminal and civil defendants in most circumstances. The bill stipulates that “No judge of the United States or of any State may issue a gag order to the defendant in any criminal or civil proceedings except to prevent the disclosure of confidential information provided in discovery, to protect the privacy of minors, or as part of a plea agreement.”

Compromised judges overseeing Trump cases use gag orders to stop Trump from exposing their inappropriate ties to his political rivals. Arthur Engoron, overseeing Democrat New York Attorney Letitia James‘s civil lawsuit against Trump and his business, banned him from discussing his “co-judge” law clerk Allison Greenfield’s ties to James and Biden. Juan Merchan, overseeing Democrat Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg‘s prosecution of Trump, uses gag orders even more aggressively. He wants to prevent the former president from talking about his daughter, Loren Merchan. She is cheering openly for Trump’s imprisonment. She also has extensive financial links to the Biden regime and the Democratic Party more broadly.

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“We have watched for years as a politically-weaponized Department of Justice and Democrat activist judges have gone after President Donald J. Trump,” said Rep. Andy Ogles, who introduced the legislation. “There is no right more sacred to Americans than the right to speak freely, as guaranteed in the First Amendment,” he added, arguing that “activists within the justice system are attempting to strip President Trump of this right for the sake of their own political agenda.”

Rep. Anna Paulina Luna, who has put forward a resolution to award Trump the Congressional Gold Medal, is co-sponsoring Ogles’s bill. “We have seen how our institutions have gone after President Trump to try and forcibly silence him,” she said. “This vital American value must not be corrupted, especially by those driven by political rivalries.”

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House Republicans are introducing the 'Let Trump Speak Act' to stop judges from gagging the former president and other criminal and civil defendants in most circumstances. The bill stipulates that "No judge of the United States or of any State may issue a gag order to the defendant in any criminal or civil proceedings except to prevent the disclosure of confidential information provided in discovery, to protect the privacy of minors, or as part of a plea agreement." show more
April 23, 2024
William Upton
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Biden’s Failed Censorship Czar Nina Jankowicz Now Runs a Think-Tank Named After a Venomous Snake.

Nina Jankowicz, the former and brief executive director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)’s Disinformation Governance Board, has a new non-profit group called the American Sunlight Project (ASP). The group aims to combat what it believes is a concerted campaign by conservatives to target and discredit disinformation researchers like Jankowicz. The former DHS employee was the subject of blistering criticism in 2022 over her embrace of pro-Biden government propaganda narratives on social media.

The new organization, led by Jankowicz and Carlos Álvarez-Aranyos, has hit the ground running — already accusing several House Republican committee chairmen of using their constitutional subpoena power to silence think tanks and disinformation researchers. “These tactics echo the dark days of McCarthyism, but with a frightening 21st-century twist,” Jaknowicz and Álvarez-Aranyos wrote in a letter published yesterday, leveling a series of hyperbolic accusations against House Republican leaders.

Despite her concerns about ongoing disinformation operations, Jankowicz participated in at least two such initiatives herself in 2020.

The former DHS employee publicly praised the discredited Steele dossier author, Christopher Steele, on social media. After an appearance by the British spy on the Infotagion podcast, Jankowicz posted to X (formerly Twitter), “Listened to this last night — Chris Steele (yes THAT Chris Steele) provides some great historical context about the evolution of disinfo. Worth a listen.” The alleged disinformation expert also dismissed the Hunter Biden laptop — confirmed by the Department of Justice and FBI as authentic — as “a Russian influence op.”

The American Sunlight Project–whose acronym ASP recalls the name of several venomous snake species found in the Nile region of Africa and the European vipera aspis — has a board comprised of several notable figures — including NeverTrumper Katie Harbath, a former Facebook executive and Republican operative; Ineke Mushovic, who leads a think tank that tracks “threats to democracy” and gay, lesbian, transgender movements; and Benjamin Wittes, the resident Deep State apologist at the Brookings Institute, which was primarily backed by the government of Qatar until 2017.

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Nina Jankowicz, the former and brief executive director of the Department of Homeland Security (DHS)'s Disinformation Governance Board, has a new non-profit group called the American Sunlight Project (ASP). The group aims to combat what it believes is a concerted campaign by conservatives to target and discredit disinformation researchers like Jankowicz. The former DHS employee was the subject of blistering criticism in 2022 over her embrace of pro-Biden government propaganda narratives on social media. show more