OPINION:
A week after moving into the White House, President Joseph R. Biden ordered his minions at the Justice Department to arrest Hillary Clinton’s online antagonist. Douglass Mackey became the first American captured, prosecuted, convicted and nearly imprisoned over a funny picture circulated on what is now X.
Count the 2nd Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals among those unamused by what Democratic operatives did to the self-described internet troll. In a scathing opinion Wednesday, the unanimous three-judge panel, including one of Mr. Biden’s appointees, spent 41 pages dissecting the miscarriage of justice before ordering Mr. Mackey’s unconditional acquittal.
The now-36-year-old jester celebrated by heading to his favorite social media site to post Government Exhibit #720, the felonious image that earned him a 7-month prison sentence. It said: “Avoid the line. Vote from home. Text ‘Hillary’ to 599250.”
A few days before the 2016 election, Mr. Mackey had posted the forbidden