{"id":171444,"date":"2025-07-09T11:38:39","date_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:38:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=171444"},"modified":"2025-07-09T11:38:39","modified_gmt":"2025-07-09T15:38:39","slug":"conviction-for-man-who-posted-an-anti-hillary-clinton-meme-is-overturned","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=171444","title":{"rendered":"Conviction for man who posted an anti-Hillary Clinton meme is overturned"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Douglass Mackey posted an anti-Hillary Clinton meme in 2016 calling on her supporters to “text their votes in.” It was clearly a joke, similar to a joke ran by both sides calling on the opposing side to cast their votes on Wednesday due to expected voter numbers on Tuesday. Unfortunately, the Biden administration went after him. Mackey ended up getting convicted but he appealed it. Even Democrat appointed judges on the appellate court disagreed with the conviction. They sent the case back to the lower court with the order to immediately dismiss the charges.<\/p>\n

From The Post Millennial:<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n

Douglass Mackey, who was prosecuted by the Biden administration over a meme, has seen his conviction tossed by the Second Circuit Court of appeals. Mackey broke the news on X, saying in all caps “Breaking: The Second Circuit Court of Appeals has thrown out my conviction for lack of evidence. The case has ben remanded to the district court with orders to immediately dismiss.”<\/p>\n

“Praise God,” Mackey added, who had been sentenced to 7 months in federal prison after his conviction. After his March 2023 conviction, the appellate court sided with Mackey that December and dropped the prison sentence until the appeal had been completed.<\/p>\n

Mackey was prosecuted after sharing a meme during the 2016 election season that joked Hillary Clinton supporters should text in their vote. It was a joke, but Biden’s Department of Justice under Attorney General Merrick Garland accused him of election interference. Despite their claim, they could not provide evidence that anyone had been fooled by the meme into thinking that they should text their vote. This lack of evidence was not concerning to the DOJ, who also suggested that Mackey was racist because of the meme.<\/p>\n

Those memes were the basis of the jury verdict in the Eastern District of New York that convicted him of “conspiring to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote.” The Second Circuit wrote that “the mere fact that Mackey posted the memes, even assuming that he did so with the intent to injure other citizens in the exercise of their right to vote, is not enough, standing alone, to prove a violation of Section 241. The government was obligated to show that Mackey knowingly entered into an agreement with other people to pursue that objective.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Additional Reading:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Emmons, L. (2025, July 9). BREAKING: Meme maker Douglass Mackey’s conviction unanimously THROWN OUT by appellate court. The Post Millennial<\/em>. Link<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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