FIRST AMENDMENT SHOWDOWN: The Administration’s Media Crackdown EXPLODES as Courts Push Back!!!
FIRST AMENDMENT SHOWDOWN: The Administration’s Media Crackdown EXPLODES as Courts Push Back!!!
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year into the operations of a reorganized Department of Justice, an aggressive campaign utilizing the machinery of federal law enforcement to target independent institutions has hit a historic, unyielding wall of judicial resistance.
In a pair of legal developments that have sent a tremor through the constitutional architecture of the United States, the administration’s twin offensives—a high-voltage criminal investigation targeting Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell and an unprecedented regulatory assault on independent war coverage—have been fundamentally checked by the independent judiciary.
The first, a stunning defeat delivered in the well of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia, saw Chief Judge James Boasberg step completely outside the boundaries of modern judicial euphemism. Reviewing a stack of grand jury subpoenas issued by U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro against Federal Reserve Chair Jerome Powell, Judge Boasberg did not merely quash the demands; he reached back nearly a millennium into medieval English history to find a suitable analogy for the White House’s deployment of prosecutorial power.
Quoting the infamous, lethal query attributed to King Henry II in 1170 regarding the Archbishop of Canterbury—“Will no one rid me of this troublesome priest?”—Chief Judge Boasberg ruled that the Department of Justice’s probe was entirely pretextual. He found “mountains of evidence” that the grand jury system was being weaponized not to uncover a crime, but to execute an illegal campaign of harassment against an independent monetary official who refused to step aside.
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