The Department of Justice filed a reply on Tuesday supporting its motion for a gag order against Dr. Ethan Haim, a surgeon indicted by the Biden administration after he blew the whistles on sex change procedures for minors.
“The prosecutors in @eithanhaim’s case are doubling down on their shameless effort to ask the court to censor us and our client on @X,” the Burke Law Group, which is representing Haim, said on X. “We will continue to zealously represent @EithanHaim’s liberty, and now his (and our) First Amendment right to Free Speech.”
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Haim initially came forward as an anonymous whistleblower to expose gender treatments being performed on minors at Texas Children’s Hospital in Houston. He is facing four felony counts of violating the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, also known as HIPAA, according to journalist Chris Rufo, who first reported on Haim’s story.
The reply in support of its motion for a gag order said the order would “prevent the defendant and his attorney from making inflammatory and and unfairly prejudiced statements.”
The DOJ did not respond to The Daily Signal’s request for comment about example of what types of speech would and would not be permitted.
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