{"id":1745412,"date":"2022-11-20T06:07:08","date_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:07:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745412"},"modified":"2022-11-20T06:48:12","modified_gmt":"2022-11-20T11:48:12","slug":"judge-scoffs-at-jen-psakis-attempt-to-dodge-subpoena","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/judge-scoffs-at-jen-psakis-attempt-to-dodge-subpoena\/","title":{"rendered":"Judge Scoffs at Jen Psaki&#8217;s Attempt to Dodge Subpoena"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjudge-scoffs-at-jen-psakis-attempt-to-dodge-subpoena%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1745412&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/1c697add-e543-4a77-858e-c78cd78bc209-1110x740-1.jpg\" class=\"ff-og-image-inserted\" alt=\"image\" \/><\/div>\n<p>With the GOP taking over the House soon, hearings are already being lined up on a variety of subjects that nobody in the Biden administration would touch with a ten-meter cattle prod during Joe\u2019s first two years in office. Chief among these are questions about the White House allegedly conspiring with the major social media platforms to censor reports or opinions that ran contrary to the administration\u2019s narrative. We already learned that one FBI analyst who was reportedly involved in these activities <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/jazz-shaw\/2022\/11\/16\/judge-wont-allow-biden-fbi-obstruction-on-political-basis-n511375\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">will not be excused<\/a> from testifying. And now, it turns out that former White House spokesmodel Jen Psaki isn\u2019t faring much better. She too sought to block efforts to have her testify. But a federal magistrate judge in Virginia <a href=\"https:\/\/www.politico.com\/news\/2022\/11\/18\/judge-punts-psaki-social-media-subpoena-fight-00069433\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">openly scoffed at the idea<\/a> in court this week and was described as \u201cridiculing\u201d the request. (Politico)<\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p>A federal magistrate judge in Virginia openly scoffed Friday at White House press secretary Jen Psaki\u2019s efforts to escape a deposition in a suit over alleged pressure on social media firms to censor posts on topics like Covid-19 vaccines and election fraud.<\/p>\n<p>But even after roundly rejecting and even ridiculing arguments Psaki\u2019s attorneys and the Justice Department presented against forcing her to testify, U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis ruled that the issue of Psaki\u2019s testimony be sent to Louisiana to be resolved by the federal judge overseeing the case filed in May by the states of Louisiana and Missouri. That suit alleges that President Joe Biden and his appointees are violating the First Amendment by urging Facebook, Twitter and other firms to limit access to posts on controversial subjects.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p>Unfortunately, the judge didn\u2019t put an end to Psaki\u2019s request entirely. Rather than dismissing the case, the judge sent it to the court in Louisiana that\u2019s currently overseeing the original lawsuit. That was apparently deemed to be the appropriate venue, but Psaki is seen as unlikely to prevail there either.<\/p>\n<p>Psaki\u2019s attorneys attempted to argue that obeying the subpoena would be an \u201cundue burden\u201d on her. They tried to explain that traveling to provide testimony would \u201c<em>take her away from her family for several days and interfere with her new job at MSNBC<\/em>.\u201d Yes. People who are called before Congress to provide crucial information in an investigation into potential wrongdoing frequently have to travel and may miss some time at work. What of it? The judge didn\u2019t appear to be impressed with that argument either.<\/p>\n<p>Shoes are starting to drop all over the place, or at least it seems that way. Just yesterday, <a href=\"https:\/\/hotair.com\/david-strom\/2022\/11\/18\/is-facebook-sharing-user-information-with-the-fbi-illegally-n512018\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">David Strom reported<\/a> on new information suggesting that the FBI has been receiving information from Facebook (or Meta) about social media posts unfavorable to the Biden administration and having that information suppressed.<\/p>\n<p>For a long time now, anyone with an account on Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, or any other social media content carriers could have readily told you about the suppression of conservative news items or opinions. It was far too obvious to ignore. And you never heard a peep out of the White House or 90% of the mainstream media because \u201cthe right people\u201d weren\u2019t the ones being censored. (That\u2019s \u201cright\u201d as in \u201ccorrect,\u201d not the opposite of \u201cleft.\u201d)<\/p>\n<p>As long as it was simply a business decision being made by the various Big Tech companies, it didn\u2019t seem like there was very much to be done about it. But if the government was directly involved and participating in the process, that is almost certainly a case of censorship and a violation of the First Amendment. That\u2019s the sort of thing that can get a person impeached, if not sent to prison.<\/p>\n<p>Joe Biden\u2019s \u201cmost transparent administration ever\u201d has been more secretive than the Kremlin ever since he took office. And if it winds up being proven that they\u2019ve been up to the type of shenanigans that are seemingly being uncovered, heads will need to roll. Let\u2019s hope that the GOP leadership doesn\u2019t wind up getting cold feet and going squishy on us.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the GOP taking over the House soon, hearings are already being lined up on a variety of subjects that nobody in the Biden administration would touch with a ten-meter<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1745415,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1745412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1745412"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745412\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1745415"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1745412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1745412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1745412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}