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Twitter seemed to think they could.

https://storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.uscourts.cadc.39...

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> Nonetheless, the district court gave Twitter an opportunity to purge its contempt by producing the account information. When the court asked Twitter's counsel whether the company could produce the required materials by 5:00 p.m. that evening, counsel answered: "I believe we are prepared to do that. Yes, Your Honor."




If I'm understanding the transcript correctly, the major issue wasn't that Twitter couldn't collect the information or needed to do extra work to collect the information; Twitter just didn't want to provide the information, seemingly so that they could Trump and have him lodge a (bogus) executive privilege claim.




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