Biden-Harris Censors an Innocent Man

Here is a good example of teh Biden-Harris administration abusing its DoJ power to suppress the free speech of a political enemy.

Jonathan Turley writes:

We have previously discussed controversial sentences handed down in cases involving rioters on January 6th, including sentencing orders that, in my view, violate First Amendment rights. That included the case of Daniel Goodwyn, who pleaded guilty to a single misdemeanor count of entering and remaining in a restricted building. That crime would ordinarily not involve any jail time for a first offender. However, Judge Reggie B. Walton of the United States District Court for the District of Columbia decided that he would use the case to regulate what Goodwyn was reading and communicating with a chilling probation order. After the case was sent back by the D.C. Circuit, Walton doubled down on his extraordinary order. Now the D.C. Circuit has refused to hear an emergency appeal.

Judge Walton has attracted controversy and criticism over his public comments about former President Donald Trump and the other issues.

The appeal dissent said:

This appeal involves computer monitoring imposed as a special condition of supervised release for a defendant convicted of wrongfully entering the United States Capitol on January 6, 2021. Daniel Goodwyn pleaded guilty to one count of knowingly entering or remaining in a restricted building or grounds, in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 1752(a)(1). Goodwyn entered the Capitol and remained inside for a total of 36 seconds. He did not use force to enter, did not assault police officers, and neither took nor damaged any government property. When police instructed Goodwyn to leave the building, he did so.

The district court sentenced Goodwyn to 60 days of imprisonment followed by a one-year term of supervised release. As a special condition of supervised release, the court sua sponte ordered the probation office to monitor Goodwyn's computers for the transmittal of "disinformation" about January 6. To enforce this condition, the court further required the installation of software on Goodwyn's computers that would enable the probation office to conduct "periodic unannounced searches."

So he cannot express any pro-Trump opinions on the internet until after the election.