A federal judge has delivered a stunning rebuke to the Justice Department's heavy-handed tactics, blocking federal agents from searching through the electronic devices of a Washington Post reporter that were seized by the FBI last month in what appears to be yet another example of the administrative state run amok.
U.S. Magistrate Judge William Porter of Virginia issued the protective order late Tuesday, ruling that the court itself will conduct the review of materials rather than allowing DOJ bureaucrats to rifle through a journalist's private communications and sources.
This brazen FBI seizure reeks of the same authoritarian playbook we witnessed during the Biden regime's systematic targeting of conservatives, parents at school board meetings, and anyone who dared challenge the establishment narrative. Now we're seeing the residual effects of that weaponized justice system still playing out even under President Trump's second term.
Deep State Dies Hard
The fact that a federal judge felt compelled to step in and protect a reporter's materials from his own government speaks volumes about how thoroughly corrupted our federal law enforcement apparatus became under four years of Biden-era persecution.
While the Washington Post is hardly a friend to conservative Americans or the MAGA movement, the principle here matters enormously. If federal agents can simply seize journalists' devices and go fishing through their communications, how long before they're doing the same thing to conservative bloggers, independent media outlets, or ordinary citizens who dare speak truth to power?
This is exactly the kind of government overreach that President Trump and his team are working to dismantle through initiatives like Elon Musk's Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE) and the broader America First agenda of reining in the bloated federal bureaucracy.
Judge Porter's intervention serves as a crucial check on prosecutorial abuse, but it raises an uncomfortable question: How many other cases of federal overreach are we not hearing about? How many Americans have had their constitutional rights trampled by an out-of-control administrative state that thinks it answers to no one?
Patriots should be watching this case closely as a barometer of whether our justice system can be restored to its proper constitutional role, or if the deep state corruption runs too deep to root out.