If you haven’t been keeping up with the DOJ clown show going on in Florida surrounding the prosecution of two men in the AutoKeyCard auto sear case, read this and this. Then go read Ammoland’s post, too.

Long story short — a shockingly thin-skinned Assistant US Attorney who was one of two prosecutors on the case didn’t like that John Crump, who writes for Ammoland and also has his own podcast and YouTube channel, was reporting on the trial of the two men who ran the AutoKeyCard operation. It seems that commenters were also saying mean things about her. On the internet. Imagine that.

In her latest hissy fit about the reporting, she filed a motion with the court asking the judge to order Crump to destroy a pre-sentencing investigative report that one of the defendants had given him. The judge held a hearing on the gag order request earlier this afternoon in Jacksonville, Florida.

It seems AUSA Taylor’s motion for prior restraint…wasn’t well-received by the trial judge. At all.

Assistant US Attorney Laura Cofer Taylor
Laura Cofer Taylor in happier times. (courtesy lexology.com)

In fact, as we just heard from one of the involved parties, the judge’s displeasure (probably combined with the fact that Crump was well-represented by very able counsel) was such that Taylor apparently thought better of her clearly unconstitutional, half-baked motion and withdrew it.

So all’s well that ends well. And an embarrassingly sensitive DOJ prosecutor — who certainly should have known better — has apparently learned a lesson. Or so we hope.

UPDATE: This is what you call a judicial smackdown.

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  1. Pretty sure she received a call from further up the food chain to quit kvetching, shut up and back away gracefully…and to quietly engage in damage control cause she’s making Biden’s DoJ look cheap and petty [sic].

    • Nah, this was all on her. A decent attorney can take a “hint” from the judge that a motion should be withdrawn.

    • The Department of Just-Us is a LOT worse than cheap and petty! Those guys deserved a “Cease and Desist” letter and when they complied they should have been left alone!

      • If you weren’t smart enough to get a good job offer after law school graduation, you go into government…

      • What do you call the commenter that doesn’t know the difference between an attorney and a judge? “unicorn whisperer”
        Nobody graduates law school and goes directly to the bench, which would be the point at which they are called, “Your Honor.” You’re welcome.

    • I think the primary “lesson” progressives learn from such incidents is to find a new way to try to get around the Constitution when the previous method fails. They, like is stressed in all things Communist, is to be patient, keep chipping away and never give up.

      I doubt she feels any remorse, embarrassment, or learned anything other than the above. She’s still there.

    • I don’t understand how they can prosecute these people for essentially “art” engraved on a piece of stainless steel. These “pieces” that are engraved don’t pop out. You would have to machine them out. And how is that any different from a guy printing them on a label and cutting them out. The onus is on the guy cutting them out. These are basically just – images.

      • “I don’t understand how they can prosecute these people for essentially “art” engraved on a piece of stainless steel.”

        I *suspect* the ‘gotcha’ was the steel plate itself, since that’s what would eventually be inserted into the gun.

        I’ll re-ask the question I asked the other day –

        Would they be locked up today had they simply sold a decal that could be stuck on a proper-thickness metal plate?

        And then removed once the cutting was done?

        That way, nothing that was sold could be put in a firearm…

    • NOT, she will soon be rewarded with a higher position.

      The mistake according the Establishment, the PIONS didn’t “CAVE”, like they were supposed to!!!

    • These Marxist snowflakes never learn and can only learn by being banished to Cuba for the rest of her life.

    • “Needs her legal license to have the same status as Bill Clinton’s.”

      I don’t remember that hurting Clinton in the least. This sort of thing is mere resume enhancement for the Left. Now, had the same thing happened to, say, Mitt Romney, or Mitch the Turtle, Lindsey Graham or any of the progressive Republicrat Senate chix, they could never live it down. Shoot, they can’t deal with “folders of women” or transporting the family dog, let alone violating some citizen’s civil rights.

  5. “And an embarrassingly sensitive DOJ prosecutor — who certainly should have known better — has apparently learned a lesson. Or so we hope.”

    The only ‘lesson’ she learned was to not get caught next time… 🙁

    • Can you even begin to imagine the eggshells the dude that ”serves” her must walk on. That poor, poor sob. I wonder how much of his soul is left….

  7. As a representative of the government her law license should be permanently revoked. She should spend six months behind bars in jail. Pay restitution to Ammoland. All court costs and a ten thousand dollar fine.

  8. Meanwhile in Yamhill County Oregon, Dillan Cashman was acquitted of attempted murder charges after he allegedly fired some 243 rounds from various weapons in response to police officers responding to a domestic disturbance, thoroughly ventilating the neighborhood.

    • That’s slightly different. If it was a jury trial, either it was total incompetence on the part of the prosecuting attorney or it was the brain dead members of the jury. Doing my 20+ years in court I saw some jury acquittals that mad one owner about the mental acuity of people at large. Murder 1 trial. Accused emptied the mag of a 1911 into his wife. Jury found him guilty of first degree murder but found he was not guilty of being armed at the time of the offense. WHAT???? Reconcile a deliberate finding of not guilty of being armed at the time of the offense with shooting off 7 .45 acp rounds into the victim. And this was a conservative county at the time of that verdict.

  9. in the meantime, on this site are repeated advertisements for a 12 Guage, double barrel, black powder pistol. Having some trouble getting my head around how that could possibly be a hoot-to-shoot.

    • “Having some trouble getting my head around how that could possibly be a hoot-to-shoot.”

      Big booms and billowing clouds of sulpher-scented smoke, apparently…

    • It’s a 19th century howdah gun. Plain and simple. You need something like that when a p.o.’d tiger is sharing the howdah with you.

  11. The big news in Jacksonville FL, one of the largest cities in the US and with a high rate of murders, now has a Donk mayor.

    Her first major announcement to help stop crime in the city? Just kidding, it has nothing to do with crime prevention.

    “Mayor Donna Deegan’s newest appointments further represent her commitment to hiring diversely and across party lines, she said in a press conference Thursday afternoon, with her administration so far being 15% more diverse than that of her (Republican) predecessor, Lenny Curry.

    “Deegan said her new appointments so far have been 26% African American, 9% Asian American, 6% other ethnicities, 3% Native Hawaiian or Pacific Islander and 9% members of the LGBTQ+ community. She additionally planned to ensure the city’s Hispanic community were more well represented looking forward.” — https://www.jacksonville.com/story/news/politics/government/2023/08/10/mayor-donna-deegan-says-administration-is-15-more-diverse-than-currys-appointments/70565368007/

    • “… with her administration so far being 15% more diverse than that of her (Republican) predecessor, Lenny Curry.”

      That’s disingenuous. Whats she is not telling you is that ‘she’ created ‘some’ of those “positions’ and specifically filled them with ‘some’ candidates that were not so well qualified, and for other positions where people were either ‘forced out’ or simply left due to attrition she also filled those positions with less qualified people.

      • Spot on. But she’s a Donk, so …

        “…created three new positions spanning public safety, diversity and public health.”

        Yep, just what we need — a “chief of public safety” who ran against the current sheriff during the last election, so now she’ll get to second-guess and undermine him. A “chief health officer” to rule during the next scamdemic. And of course, every city needs a “director of diversity and inclusion.” Seems to me that’s something that our governor wouldn’t want Jacksonville spending its citizens’ taxes to create and run, but I doubt that the City Council will hold the line and refuse to fund the position.

      • Thats how diversity works, filling spots with less qualified people. They should just call diversity “filling spots with less qualified people”. I think that explains it better

        • AQ — even better, in this case the Donk mayor is increasing the size and scope of government.

          Big surprise there, eh?

    • Regarding diversity hiring, one thing I’ve noted is that when a newly elected official begins to populate their administration, and they have promised to make it more a reflection of society, they never end up with a roughly 50/50 mix of Rs and Ds. That would be a novel idea.

      • Well said. Our new mayor promised to hire Republicans for her staff.

        No way is there a 50/50 split, obviously. And to reflect our local political makeup, there should be at least a quarter of the staff as NPAs like me.

        (No Party Affiliation)

  12. How this is even a case puzzles me. While the cards contain the profiles of parts that once cut out and assembled, can be used to convert a semi-automatic AR-15 into a full auto machine gun, an unaltered card is nothing more than a picture. The prosecution must manufacture the evidence to prove its allegation.

  13. “Or more likely, I’m having that CRS thing again.”
    Thanks, Man with no name, now I remember why I can’t remember.

  14. The ATF pursuing criminal conviction of guys producing art on a piece of metal while at the same time allowing MKE MP5 clones to be imported and sold with auto sears installed in their trigger packs. The same exact part that would have been registered as the machine gun before 1986.

    Makes zero sense to me!

  15. Per the update August 14, today:

    “With the agreement of the parties, Mr. Hoover is ordered not to further disseminate any copies of his Presentance Investigation Report. In addition, the United States Probation Office is directed to provide all further information or filings from that office only to counsel of record.”

    This is a win? It looks like everyone agreed to gag themselves so that Crump won’t have any further information to report upon.

    • “This is a win? It looks like everyone agreed to gag themselves so that Crump won’t have any further information to report upon.”

      Stinks to me as well.

      Anyways –

      That sinkhole was in Brandon, not far from me. It’s a quiet bedroom community due east of Tampa. I was surprised at the time no one volunteered to be tied off with a rope to try and save him. What I recall at the time was he was hollering for rescue for some time… 🙁

      • “Sinkhole” and “Brandon” seem to complement each other quite well.

        I’m not talking about the town in Florida.

  16. If It Smells Like Infringement, then it is Infringement.
    This “Case” reeked from the beginning.

  17. From the article:
    “a shockingly thin-skinned Assistant US Attorney”
    No, that is the exercise of raw power without fear of correction or reprisal. The Democrats have been acting like they believe they won’t ever get voted out of power, and their strong arm, the DoJ is working to make that happen. That belief can’t be pure fantasy. This may soon be the new normal. As soon as January 2025.

    • Agreed. Nothing “thin-skinned” about it at all. Simply a raw power play designed to show the absolute authority that the government thinks it has over the PEONS.

  18. WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT OWNED BY “ANY HUMAN”, PERIOD. NO HUMAN GETS TO TELL YOU WHAT YOU CAN or CAN NOT HAVE, OWN, DO, BUY, SELL, MAKE, CARRY, ETC……. or WHAT ATTACHMENTS YOU MAY HAVE ON ANY OF YOUR PROPERTY/GUNS. As LONG AS YOU ARE “NOT” “PURPOSELY” (OUTSIDE of TYRANNY or SELF DEFENSE)HURTING SOMEONE ELSE OR SOMEONE ELSE’S PROPERTY, “NONE” of these SATANIC NAZI WANNABE POWER HAPPY CONTROL FREAK HUMAN GIVEN government JOB TITLED TERRORIST TYRANT CRIMINALS have a SAY, PERIOD. The ONLY LAWS ON THIS PLANET that MATTER ARE GOD’S LAWS, PERIOD. LITTLE HUMAN WANNABE CONTROL SO-CALLED LAWS are 100% FAKE and DO NOT MEAN A FING THING. QUIT BENDING OVER ACTING LIKE MENTALLY CASTRATED HUMAN CONTROLLED OWNED SHEEPLE SLAVE COWARDS the ONLY THING YOU FING BRAIN DEAD SIMPLETON HUMAN GIVEN government JOB TITLED WORSHIPING ANUS SUCKING KOOL-AID LAPPING MENTALLY CASTRATED HUMAN CONTROLLED OWNED SHEEPLE SLAVE COWARD MORONS ARE DOING is HURTING EVERYONE’S FREEDOM and RIGHTS.

  19. A PIECE of FLAT METAL WITH A PICTURE ON IT IS NOT A MACHINE GUN, IN FACT IT IS NOTHING BUT A FLAT PIECE of METAL with A PICTURE ON IT, PERIOD. WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT OWNED BY ANY HUMAN, PERIOD the PEOPLE HAVE the RIGHT TO HAVE OWN BUY SELL MAKE CARRY ANYTHING THEY DAMN WELL PLEASE and DEEM NECESSARY TOI DEFEND THEMSELVES from ALL THREATS INCLUDING FROM THESE SATANIC NAZI WANNABE POWER HAPPY CONTROL FREAK HUMAN GIVEN government JOB TITLED TERRORIST TYRANT CRIMINALS. THE PEOPLE HAVE THE RIGHT to BE JUST AS EQUALLY ARMED AS “”””ANY””” OTHER HUMAN ON THIS PLANET TO BE ABLE TO DEFEND THEIR LIVES and OTHERS. NO HUMAN HAS ANY RIGHT to SAY OTHERWISE, PERIOD. THESE LTTLE FAKE HUMAN GIVEN government JOB TITLES and THEIR FAKE LITTLE HUMAN WANNABE CONTROL DOES NOT MEAN A F CKING THING, PERIOD.

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