SCOTUS Rejects Musk’s Suit Over Trump’s Twitter DMs

Law & Crime reports:

Months after Elon Musk’s X Corp. urged the justices of the U.S. Supreme Court to find that special counsel Jack Smith unlawfully forced Twitter to hand over evidence of Trump’s “private communications” without the former president’s knowledge of the Jan. 6 probe-related action, the high court on Monday refused to take up the case and offered no explanation for the denial.

In July, special counsel Smith responded by saying the X’s petition, advancing an “abstract and unfounded privilege claim and idiosyncratic facts,” was no reason to to rethink the “standards” that govern warrants under the Stored Communications Act moving forward; under the act, there is a mechanism for obtaining the nondisclosure order that X challenged.

The special counsel, noting that Twitter was fined $350,000 for “not fully comply[ing] with the warrant until after the [district] court’s deadline,” said the X petition lacked “merit” and “warrant[ed] no further review.”

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