
On Thursday, Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht of the election integrity organization True The Vote were held in contempt of court because they have refused to divulge a confidential source in a civil case brought by the election software company Konnech in a federal court in Houston.
They are scheduled to be jailed this Monday morning without bond.
The judge in the case, Kenneth Hoyt of the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of Texas, has gone to extraordinary lengths to protect Konnech from legitimate scrutiny. First, Judge Hoyt granted Konnechâs request for a temporary restraining order against Engelbrecht and Phillips â which prohibits them from accessing, or attempting to access, Konnechâs computers or disclosing any of the companyâs data. Then Hoyt demanded that True The Vote disclose the name of the person who helped them access Konnechâs data in the first place.
What has destroyed Konnechâs defamation lawsuit against True The Vote is that Konnechâs CEO, Eugene Yu, was arrested on October 4th for illegally storing the personal data of American election workers on servers in China. (Hereâs the backstory on how the FBI tried to conceal Chinese infiltration of our elections and then read this follow-up story by Kanekoa and then read this story.) Judge Hoyt has simply proceeded in Konnechâs civil case this week as if none of this has happened.
According to a press release that appeared on October 4th on the âTrue The Voteâ website, Judge Hoyt went so far as to issue a gag order against Phillips and Engelbrecht even discussing the litigation:
True the Vote was sued last month by Konnech to try to silence our organization, including obtaining an ex-parte TRO, conducted in secret so that True the Vote had no opportunity to contest it. This TRO limited True the Voteâs ability to speak on the litigation. Today Konnech CEO Eugene Yu was arrested based on alleged evidence of the very activities he and his organization attempted to suppress. Konnech was assisted by many reporters who unblinkingly accepted their now discredited claims as fact, and simply repeated them.
Now that Eugene Yu has been arrested, why are Gregg Phillips and Catherine Engelbrecht facing jail for telling the truth about Konnech at all?
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