A Judiciary Actually Upholds Conservative Free Press Rights
John R. Houk, Blog Editor
© November 7, 2022
According to a very small handful of Conservative reporting
sites (the most known: The
Epoch Times, 100PercentFedUp
& The
Gateway Pundit) Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips have
been ordered released from jail by the 5th Circuit Appellate Court for
bogus contempt charges by an idiot Judge that must of have failed 1st
Amendment Free Press rules at his Bar Examine.
I say “small handful” because either no one else is
reporting this epic news upholding Free Press sourcing or all the search
engines are burying the info.
I’m cross posting The Epoch Times and the National
File (which I only located on the Presearch Search Engine). Perhaps
further updated info will garner a better search engine response – but my lack
of trust for Big Tech means I won’t hold my breath.
PS: I was a bit surprised that neither The Epoch Times
nor the National File mentioned Konnech CEO Eugene Yu (actually arrested
for delivering U.S. Election data to the CCP) in the below cross posts.
Especially puzzling because the National File an incriminating Yu
article on November 1: “Examining
Konnech CEO Eugene Yu’s Ties with BlackRock.”
JRH 11/7/22
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Court Orders Release of True the Vote Leaders From Jail
True the Vote founder and
president Catherine Engelbrecht makes a point during a presentation on ballot
trafficking at the Arizona statehouse on May 31, 2022. Seated next to her is
True the Vote data investigator Gregg Phillips. (Allan
Stein/The Epoch Times)
November 7, 2022 Updated: November 7, 2022
Two leaders of True the
Vote organization will be released from jail after an appeals
court overruled a judge’s order that they be locked up.
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg
Phillips were ordered released by a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for
the Fifth Circuit late Nov. 6.
“IT IS ORDERED that Petitioners’ opposed motion for release
from detention is GRANTED pending further order of this court,” the panel said
in the order, which was obtained by The Epoch Times.
The panel consisted of Circuit Judges Catharina Haynes, a
George W. Bush appointee; Kurt Engelhardt, a Trump appointee; and Andrew
Oldham, a Trump appointee.
Engelbrecht and Phillips were expected to be released on
Nov. 7, a spokesman for True the Vote told The Epoch Times via email on Monday
morning.
“They will be released when the paperwork is complete,
probably sometime this morning,” the spokesman said.
Engelbrecht and Phillips were imprisoned on Oct. 31 after U.S. District
Judge Kenneth Hoyt, a Reagan appointee, found them in contempt of court for not
revealing the identities of people who allegedly accessed information from
Konnech, a Michigan-based election management software company whose founder
was recently arrested for allegedly stealing poll
worker data and hosting it on servers in China.
The order for confinement was to be in place until the
defendants “fully comply” with an order that they reveal certain information,
including the identities, Hoyt said.
Engelbrecht and Phillips say they passed on information
that was legally obtained from Konnech to the FBI. One of their attorneys named
one of the individuals in question, Mike Hasson, during an October hearing. But
they have declined to share the name of the second person. Both the individuals
are FBI informants, Phillips said during one hearing.
“Those who thought that imprisoning Gregg and I would weaken
our resolve have gravely miscalculated. It is stronger than
ever,” Engelbrecht said in a statement. “The right to free and fair
elections without interference is more important than our own discomforts and
even this detention, now reversed by a higher court.”
“We are profoundly grateful for that. We will continue to
protect and defend those who do the vital work of election integrity, and we
will make sure that their findings become a matter of public record,” she
added.
The imprisonment order came after Konnech sued True the Vote
and its founders for defamation.
Hoyt entered a temporary restraining order against the
defendants, ordering them to return all property and data to Konnech and
identify people who were involved in accessing the company’s computers.
In their filing for release from
detention, Engelbrecht and Phillips said that Hoyt’s confinement order
“represents a clear abuse of discretion and a manifest miscarriage of justice.”
“Petitioners pray that this Court enter an Order releasing
them from the district court’s draconian order of detention for refusing to
identity a federal confidential informant in open court whose identity in any
event has no bearing on the merits of this defamation case hinging on competing
accounts of alleged historical events,” they added.
The pair also said that they never possessed or controlled
the information in question. Phillips said Engelbrecht does not know the name
that he is withholding and that, if the name were revealed, the person’s life
would “be jeopardized by border drug and smuggling cartels.”
In its opposition to the petition, Konnech said
that the True the Vote founders were trying to “strip the District Court of its
contempt power” and that they “have no one but themselves to blame for their confinement”
after defying Hoyt’s order.
“Petitioners’ imprisonment is not an emergency especially in
this case where the Petitioners are contemnors and recalcitrant witnesses who
hold the keys to the jailhouse, and can free themselves immediately upon purging
their contempt,” lawyers for the firm said.
Zachary Stieber
covers U.S. and world news for The Epoch Times. He is based in Maryland.
Copyright © 2000 – 2022. THE EPOCH TIMES
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Appeals Court Orders True The Vote Leaders to be Released
From Jail
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Gregg Phillips and
Catherine Engelbrecht (NF
Credits Photo – True The Vote)
By CULLEN MCCUE
November 7, 2022
Last Updated on November 7, 2022
True The Vote leaders Gregg Phillips and Catherine
Engelbrecht after an appeals court overruled a contempt charge lobbied against
the duo by a judge. The judge ordered the election integrity activists to name
a confidential source, which they refused to do.
Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips were ordered
released by a panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit late
Sunday evening. “IT IS ORDERED that Petitioners’ opposed motion for release
from detention is GRANTED pending further order of this court,” the panel said
in its ruling.
The election watchdogs are expected to be released on
Monday, November 7, a spokesman for True The Vote told the Epoch
Times in an email. “They will be released when the paperwork is
complete, probably sometime this morning,” the spokesman said.
Englebrecht and Phillips were previously taken into custody
by U.S. Marshals on October 31. U.S. District Judge Kenneth Hoyt found the pair
in contempt of court for refusing to reveal the identities of sources who
helped to assess information from Konnech Inc; the election software company
whose CEO is being criminally
charged for allegedly stealing U.S. election data and storing
it in China.
Hoyt ordered them to be imprisoned for contempt until they
“fully comply” with the order to disclose the source.
Investigative reporter was in court last week and witnessed
the arrest. “It all comes down to this meeting in this Dallas hotel, where they
were accessing, supposedly, the Konnech servers,” Webb said. “Catherine
Engelbrecht [was] not at this meeting. Only Gregg Phillips [was]. [Phillips]
said he’s a confidential informant. [Phillips] said this other gentleman named
Mike Hasson, who was there, also is a confidential informant for the FBI,” Webb
said in a video statement describing the arrest.
“The defense also said the other third person was also a confidential
informant, they just don’t want to give up the name of the third person,” Webb
said.
Catherine Englebrecht and Gregg Phillips taken into custody in the Courtroom here in Houston this morning. pic.twitter.com/eYEqXiwDee
— George Webb - Investigative Journalist (@RealGeorgeWebb1) October 31, 2022
Catherine Engelbrecht released a statement shortly after the
appeals court decision was announced.
“Those who thought that imprisoning Gregg and I would weaken
our resolve have gravely miscalculated. It is stronger than ever,” she said.
“The right to free and fair elections without interference is more important
than our own discomforts and even this detention, now reversed by a higher
court. We are profoundly grateful for that.”
“We will continue to protect and defend those who do the
vital work of election integrity, and we will make sure that their findings
become a matter of public record.”
Statement from Catherine Engelbrecht and Gregg Phillips of True the Vote, on the Fifth Circuit court reversing a lower court and ordering them released from custody. #TrueTheVote pic.twitter.com/fJWXlKwwSM
— Brian Glicklich (@brianglicklich) November 7, 2022
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