Mueller Russian Indictments Could Be Challenged Under Our Own First Amendment Rights

Russia I Got Your Back: Power to the People 
(My Salute Shows You My Stance)

S/C Robert Mueller and his team recently announced a massive indictment against 13 Russian operatives accused of violating election law, fraud, and failing to register as foreign agents for their alleged scheme to infiltrate social media platforms to sway the election against (and for the most part against Hillary Clinton).

A large crux of the indictment centers on alleged violations of the Federal Election Campaign Act (FECA). Feds say that the Russian operatives, while concealing their identities, purchased and posted advertisements on social media to further their scheme of influencing the election.

Noteworthy: This law prevents foreign nationals from making any contributions or expenditures in connection with any federal, state, or local election in the United States.

Specific rules on this topic can be see and read here from the FEC.

But, as well-known election law expert Rick Hasen points out, FECA is not limitless, and some of the advertisements mentioned in the indictment might not actually be illegal.

Continue the story here for more details on this astonishing twist.

My 2 cents: I am 100% sure we will hear more on this slant to the story.

Maybe the Russians will assign the lawyer whom Donald Jr., Manafort, and Kushner met in Trump Tower in June 2016.

You think – remember her: Natalia Veselnitskaya. 

More on that meeting (the follow up as it were) can be seen here from CNN.

Therefore this story is potentially truly amazing and very troublesome at the same time about what the Russians may or may not attempt, as this legal expert says in the article, to effectively challenge and actually win against Mueller and his indictments against them – that is using our rock-solid First Amendment rights and protections in our own court system against us and for them. That should concern us all.

Personally I don't think any court in the land, including the USSC, would honor the Russian challenge — but who knows for sure — but that is my hunch.

So stay tuned for more on this which I am sure is forthcoming.

And, thanks for stopping by.