Thread by @ProfMJCleveland

🚨🚨🚨BREAKING-ish on whistleblower @EithanHaim who outed child mutilation at Texas hospital whistle. Federal judge basically says "that's a nice First Amendment right to free speech you've got there, be a pity if anything happened to it." 1/

2/ Here's the background on the hearing from earlier this week on the Biden Administration's effort to gag @EithanHaim. @FDRLST thefederalist.com/2024/11/27/bid…

@EithanHaim @FDRLST 3/ So was buried in dep prep and day-long dep assist. yesterday so didn't have time to dig into it but hearing held on Tuesday on government's motion to gag.

4/ Very little coverage of case...likely because legacy media doesn't want to a) expose reality of child trans surgery and b) expose Biden Administration's weaponization of criminal justice with this bogus criminal case against whistleblower (more on that next week).

5/ What little coverage there is, creates false impression court denied government's motion to gag. houstonlanding.org/federal-judge-…

6/ NOT what happened. Rather, court said "I will not grant or deny a gag order," and ordered a continuance.

7/ Problem is that in doing so the judge's comments in essence equate to a prior restraint. Here's what judge said. NOTE: He clearly states clients & attorneys "adjusted their conduct" and "they just didn't do any more."

8/ And why didn't the client & his lawyer talk anymore? ...because judge told them consequences, which is what he did in this case:

9/ But consequences for what? Judge didn't say! @EithanHaim and his attorneys must guess what would be considered conduct judge wants to stop.

@EithanHaim 10/ Well, DOJ thinks it Haim's can't repost @KyleSeraphin where Kyle spoke of "effeminate clowns at DOJ who blatantly engage in bad faith legal work," and called them "stooges."

11/ DOJ prosecutor then bemoans X post by Haim that criticizes DOJ's for trying to silence him, calling it "tyrannical behavior."

12/ And somehow, Haim even pointing out what DOJ did to him, DOJ wants to stop.

13/ DOJ frames its desire for gag as Haim is tainting jury pool, but that's ridiculous: Only 12% of Americans regularly get news off of X. Now, that's 11.99% more folks getting news from @elonmusk than, say @MSNBC, but voir dire addresses that. pewresearch.org/journalism/fac…

@elonmusk @MSNBC 14/ Yes DOJ pretended like the number of views on X would hopelessly prejudice the jury, maybe thinking Judge (who is a Reagan!!! appointee), is a luddite. In reality, though, DOJ just doesn't want to be criticized.

@elonmusk @MSNBC 15/ Well, you know what? The First Amendment guarantees our right to criticize the government, to call them clowns, to expose their weaponization of criminal law and that is precisely what Biden Administration is doing here.

@elonmusk @MSNBC 16/And @EithanHaim has that right, even as a defendant. Court, though, by refusing to either gag or not gag, and warning Haim & attorney of consequences has left Haim in worse position than had a gag been entered.

@elonmusk @MSNBC @EithanHaim 17/ First, he cannot appeal and second, he doesn't know what court would consider sanctionable conduct. Now, of course Haim could ignore but if judge orders him to jail, Haim is in jail while he awaits an appeal.

@elonmusk @MSNBC @EithanHaim 18/18 Of course, rest of us can call Biden Administration DOJ a bunch of incompetent clowns! 😉