A defilement of Justice rectified. Now for the civil suit against Garland's DOJ for money damages.

Finally, justice had been served not skewered. Mackey had been sentenced to 7 months in prison for exercising free speech. The shame of the arrest and conviction and the egregious sentence was yet another self-inflicted disgrace visited upon the Garland DOJ whose motto was "if you can't beat 'em bury them." We know Biden was oblivious so who wielded the autopen we wreak havoc upon the First amendment.

Early example of Lawfare……death by a thousand cuts….Merrick Garland say it soft and it’s almost like fraying, sat it loud and it’s almost like braying

Douglass Mackey was prosecuted and convicted for posting a meme. Even just writing that out sounds absurd, and it is absurd. There is absolutely no reason in these United States that a man should have been sentenced to 7 months in federal prison for posting a joke about Hillary Clinton on the internet.

They did it because they were still mad about the 2016 presidential election. She lost. They really hate that. And they still don't even know why.

Meme warriors were the life blood of Twitter in the lead up to the 2016 election. They posted controversial jokes, notions, and witticisms. They made an art form out of sh*t-posting and reveled in the glory of being anions who drove ideas, who pushed a movement, who were part of the force that got Donald Trump elected to the White House.

It was a glorious, dangerous, edgy, crazy time and it brought political discourse out of the hands of helmet-haired pundits and back to the people. It reminded American voters that we are the groundlings, we are the puking masses, and we matter.

We matter so much we can say whatever we want, it's our God-given American right to do so and we will not be silenced or shut up or forced to kowtow to coastal crybabies who think they're better than us.

And that's just how I feel now, after 10 years scribbling in conservative media, not even having been a political person back in the meme wars. I can only imagine the power these anon memesters must have felt surging through their fingertips onto their keyboards and out into the ether of cyberspace.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals found that there was no evidence backing up Biden's case against Mackey. The jury in the Eastern District of New York convicted Mackey of "conspiring to injure citizens in the exercise of their right to vote in violation of 18 U.S.C. § 241 based on three memes he posted or reposted on Twitter shortly before the 2016 presidential election" without the DOJ having provided evidence of that.

In a unanimous ruling this week dismissing the case entirely, the federal appellate court said "Mackey argues, inter alia, that the evidence was insufficient to prove that he knowingly agreed to join the charged conspiracy. We agree." Mackey was forced to do legal battle for his freedom over a grudge harbored by Clinton, Biden, and lackey AG Merrick Garland.

Garland alleged that Mackey and his friends had all gotten together in chats to intentionally defraud Americans of their voting rights by creating and distributing memes that joked about alternative voting methods. This was his workaround for prosecuting a man for protected speech.

It was a joke. Mackey knew it. Hillary Clinton knew it. Her supporters who posted similar memes about the other side knew it. Garland knew it, he couldn't even find anyone who had actually been fooled by the meme. Joe Biden knew it (if he knew anything by the time the case rolled around).

Yet the prosecution proceeded anyway. Biden's DOJ brought this joke of a case about a joke to the Trump-hating jurors of the far-left Eastern District Court of New York and convinced them that Mackey had conspired against them, their candidate, and against voting rights.

In taking up the case against Mackey, claiming that he and his online compadres were intentionally seeking to undermine the voting rights of their countrymen, the Biden DOJ showed that their real goal was not to protect elections or voting (Covid mail-in ballots gave face to that lie). Their goal was to hold someone accountable for Hillary Clinton's 2016 presidential loss to Trump.

The Biden administration had absolutely no cause to prosecute the meme maker, knowing as they did that freedom of speech is not only protected but vouchsafed as our highest value in the First Amendment to the Bill of Rights. So, they concocted an absurdity and claimed that Mackey was part of a criminal conspiracy to violate the voting rights of the American people.

The Second Circuit Court of Appeals which found that basically he was just being "silly" with friends on the internet, something that's pretty commonplace these days for many of us who talk to friends and family online. Jokes about. Jokes are like at least half the point of the internet.

"At various times throughout 2016," the court said, "Mackey was a member of several direct message groups, three of which are particularly relevant here: the 'War Room,' 'Micro Chat,' and 'Madman #2.' In these groups, members shared pro-Trump and anti-Clinton messages and memes and discussed strategies to make their posts trend and go viral on Twitter. ... Like most of Mackey’s tweets, the exchanges in these groups generally fell within the scope of lawful—albeit sometimes 'outrageous' or 'silly'—political speech."

"This case was not overturned on some kind of technicality or even on a Constitutional nature," Mackey said about the verdict. "The circuit court just ordered the District Court to enter a judgment of acquittal, a full acquittal, based on the fact that they did not have any evidence to support this conviction, which confirms what we knew all along."

"They brought this conviction because Joe Biden stole the election, and they wanted to put a Trump supporter on trial. They wanted to arrest Trump supporters and make an example out of them, even though they did not have sufficient evidence to prove that a crime was committed."

That the court overturned the conviction and ordered the case be dismissed is a win for all Trump supporters who, to this day, continue to be vilified and denigrated for having had the audacity to vote for the president. Meme warriors, unite, get silly, make new ideas, do not be silenced. Mackey earned freedom for us all.

https://humanevents.com/2025/07/09/breaking-douglass-mackey-to-sue-doj-over-meme-prosecution