The Eighth Circuit Court of Appeals on Friday ruled that just because Mike Lindell was pissed that FBI agents showed up and seized his phone while he was waiting at a Hardee’s drive-thru doesn’t mean that the search warrant is invalid nor does it prevent prosecutors from examining the phone.
Seriously. “Lindell takes issue with the manner and execution of the search warrant – his cell phone was seized from him while in the Hardee’s restaurant drive- through lane at 10:30 am while he was on his way home from an out-of-state duck hunting trip. After calling his lawyer, Lindell decided to comply with the warrant and turn over his phone to the agents. Lindell’s irritation as to where and how the government took possession of his cell phone does not give rise to a constitutional claim, let alone a showing of a callous disregard for his constitutional rights,” a panel highly qualified federal jurists had to write to a grown man who owns a nationally recognized pillow brand.
“Likewise, Lindell’s frustration that the government has not prosecuted the Colorado Secretary of State for conduct he believes violates federal law does not signify that the government’s investigation into Lindell’s actions amounts to a callous disregard for his constitutional rights. As in this case, most subjects of a search warrant cannot satisfy the extraordinarily high hurdle of a callous disregard of their constitutional rights, which is intentional and designed to prevent ‘a flood of disruptive civil litigation,'” they continued and man is he so screwed over that Mesa County Dominion “hack” shitshow that’s been going on for more than two years now at this point.