A 33-year-old creator of a popular pro-Trump Twitter account is facing up to 10 years behind bars over memes the Biden Department of Justice (DOJ) claims interfered with the 2016 presidential election.
Douglass Mackey, who went by the Twitter alias Ricky Vaughn, was charged about a week after President Joe Biden took office — some four years after the memes were posted. While the DOJ claims Mackey conspired to “injure, oppress, threaten, or intimidate” people from exercising their constitutional right to vote, the accused’s attorney says the memes were satire and don’t fall under the statute Mackey is being charged with, which is 18 U.S. Code 241.
“One of the arguments is that the conduct of issue does not fall within the scope of the statute as it’s written,” attorney James Lawrence told The Daily Wire in a phone interview. “I mean, this is a statute that was passed after the Civil War as part of the reconstruction process in the south to guarantee the rights…
