BUMPED UP - US District Judge John Tharp Jr. blasts Sheriff Tom Dart for abusing his power while issuing a restraining order against him

Cook County Sheriff Tom Dart is the MOST SUED SHERIFF IN AMERICA!

His mismanagement and internal corruption is costing the taxpayers HUNDRED OF MILLIONS OF DOLLARS!

Federal Judge blasts Sheriff Tom Dart for abusing his power while issuing a restraining order against him. US District Judge John Tharp Jr. called Dart's actions against Backpage.com a violation of the First Amendment.... Judge Tharp immediately placed a gag order on TV Tommy Dart in a lawsuit that will for sure costs Cook County taxpayers millions in legal expenses..

A federal judge crucified the sheriff for the nation's second-most populous county Friday, ordering Illinois, Cook County Sheriff Thomas Dart to back off on its attacks on Backpage.com's sex ads—attacks that could soon put the classifieds portal out of business.

In a case testing the First Amendment and federal laws protecting Web operators for the speech of their users, Backpage sued Dart after it coerced Visa and Mastercard to refrain from doing business with the classifieds portal.

The judge said Dart wrongly used his office and penned letters to essentially threaten the credit card companies to refrain from doing business with Backpage, despite an 11-year-business relationship the companies had with Backpage.

The judge added that "Dart's informal lobbying of the credit card companies violated the First Amendment by imposing an informal prior restraint on the advertisements hosted by Backpage.com."

http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/07/judge-crucifies-sheriff-over-his-blitzkrieg-on-backpage-coms-sex-ads/