Court Rejects Twitter's Claim to Alert Trump to Search Warrant

The case, which split the D.C. Circuit along partisan lines, could still be taken to the U.S. Supreme Court by Twitter, now known as X.

A federal appeals court has rejected Twitter’s claim that Donald Trump should have been alerted to the existence of a search warrant for his data by prosecutors investigating interference in the 2020 election.
The case split the D.C. Circuit along partisan lines, with four Republican appointees saying Trump should have been able to argue some of the information from Twitter be withheld from the government.
The ruling that Twitter appealed was of a court order barring the company from telling Trump or his attorneys about the existence of a January 2023 search warrant for his data and a subsequent sanction for not handing over the information on time.
Twitter, now known as X, can still take its case to the U.S. Supreme Court.
The special counsel also obtained 32 direct messages from Trump’s account, according to the court record.