Judge orders Trump administration to preserve Signal chat on Yemen strikes

[LetMyPeopleVote]

This is the appropriate ruling

https://abcnews.go.com/US/judge-holds-hearing-administrations-signal-app/story

A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to preserve the contents of the chat in which top national security officials used the Signal app to discuss military strikes in Yemen as they were taking place earlier this month.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the top cabinet officials named in a lawsuit by the government transparency group American Oversight to retain any messages sent and received over Signal between March 11 and March 15.

Benjamin Sparks, a lawyer representing American Oversight, raised concerns that "these messages are imminent danger of destruction" due to settings within Signal that can be set to delete messages automatically -- prompting Judge Boasberg to order the Trump administration file a sworn declaration by this Monday to ensure the messages are preserved.

The lawsuit -- which names Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth, Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard, CIA Director John Ratcliffe, Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent, Secretary of State Marco Rubio, and the National Archives as defendants -- asked a federal judge to declare the use of Signal unlawful and order the cabinet members to preserve the records immediately, as Signal's deleting of messages violates governmental record-keeping requirements.

[lindysalsagal]

1. Judges need to start putting these gangsters in jail, if they don't want to be hauled off into

oblivion in the night.

[MichMan]

2. Didn't the Atlantic already publish it?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. All signal communications need to be preserved

If there are other communications, these need to be preserved

[republianmushroom]

4. Possibly, if they feel like it.

If not, judge you can go pound sand. And what are you going to do ?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

5. 'Trump is going to prison': Steve Bannon panics after judge orders Signal chats preserved

This made me smile. Bannon is not happy with this ruling.

Link to tweet

https://www.rawstory.com/steve-bannon-trump-2671617285/

Longtime MAGA disciple Steve Bannon launched a furious tirade on his "War Room" show Thursday evening after U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered President Donald Trump to preserve all records from the burgeoning "Signalgate" scandal.

In Bannon's view, this is a red alert for Republicans to start cracking down and stripping the federal judiciary of its independence — because, he believes, if Democrats win their way back into power over the next couple of years, Trump's track record of dodging prison time for his criminal charges will run out.

"We're going to go through a war now in the House and the Senate," Bannon told right-wing pundit Eric Bolling. "[House Speaker Mike] Johnson, we're calling on Johnson on Monday, he should have a hearing in, at Judiciary, where you start rolling these judges through there, leading to a potential impeachment. This thing's already out of control ... Trump trial on being commander-in-chief, and then [the judge] immediately ordered, immediately ordered the documents."

Bannon went on to complain about Judge Juan Merchan, the judge who presided over Trump's felony conviction for falsification of business records, and brought up the conspiracy theories and attacks on Merchan's daughter from the far right as "the kind of pressure we need."

"We are kidding ourselves if we don't think that Democrats are pulling all stops out to stop President Trump, to take the House through any means necessary, to impeach Trump ... start the impeachment process in the first weeks of 2027," said Bannon. "And God forbid we don't win in '28, President Trump is going to prison, just like Bolsonaro in Brazil."

[Ms. Toad]

6. That doesn't go far enough.

ALL official chats over Signal (or any other chat-disappearing apps) need to be preserved. Not just those that took place from March 11 through March 15.

[Norrrm]

7. 1+