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A judge signed off on it. Which means that the State made a case for the subpoena to include a non-disclosure.
by mywittyname 3y ago
A judge signed off on it. Which means that the State made a case for the subpoena to include a non-disclosure.
- autoexec 3y agoI'm going to go ahead and guess "signed off on" was more like "rubber stamped"
- tracker1 3y agoMost likely... but the party who was served the order can file for appeal if they are willing to go that route. That said, it doesn't mean any such appeal with favor the party served the gag order.
- smsm42 3y agoAnd the case likely was "we swear it is very important for national security, trust us!" and that was enough. Search request is almost never refused, e.g. FISA court approves over 99% of them. And if the court already deemed the proof strong enough to do the search, surely it's strong enough to put a non-disclosure on it if asked.