Conservative Judges Decry ‘Unprecedented’ Trump Twitter Warrant

Conservative appellate judges, including three appointed by Donald Trump, decried what they view as an unprecedented search of the former president’s social media records as part of the special counsel’s election interference investigation.

Decisions by two courts blessing a search warrant into Trump’s Twitter account “have flipped the presumption” that presidential communications should be privileged, Judge Neomi Rao of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wrote Tuesday.

The decisions “break with longstanding precedent and gut the constitutional protections for executive privilege,” said Rao, who was joined by fellow Trump appointees Justin Walker and Gregory Katsas, ...