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The good news is that a reckoning with the Biden administration’s policy of telling companies to censor things they don’t like is coming. The Supreme Court will take up the Louisiana ban on the administration censoring political opponents via private companies. The bad news is that Roberts, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett decided to sign on letting the Biden administration go on doing it for another year because the First Amendment is just a theory.
Read the Alito dissent on the majority issuing a stay on an order blocking the Biden administration’s censorship. (Alito was joined by Thomas and Gorsuch.)
Today, however, a majority of the Court, without undertaking a full review of the record and without any explanation, suspends the effect of that injunction until the Court completes its review of this case, an event that may not occur until late in the spring of next year. Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government, and therefore today’s decision is highly disturbing.
This case began when two States, Missouri and Louisiana, and various private parties filed suit alleging that popular social media companies had either blocked their use of the companies’ platforms or had downgraded their posts on a host of controversial subjects, including “the COVID–19 lab leak theory, pandemic lockdowns, vaccine side effects, election fraud, and the Hunter Biden laptop story.”
According to the plaintiffs, Federal Government officials “were the ones pulling the strings,” that is, these officials “‘coerced, threatened, and pressured [the] social-media platforms to censor [them].’”
… To stop this “campaign,” the injunction, as it now stands, prohibits the covered officials from doing two things. First, they may not “coerce” social media platforms to make “content-moderation decisions.” Second, they may not “meaningfully contro[l]” social media platforms’ “content-moderation” efforts. Displeased with these restrictions, the Government filed an emergency application asking us to stay the effect of this injunction pending certiorari…
Despite the Government’s conspicuous failure to establish a threat of irreparable harm, the majority stays the injunction and thus allows the defendants to persist in committing the type of First Amendment violations that the lower courts identified. The majority takes this action in the face of the lower courts’ detailed findings of fact…
At this time in the history of our country, what the Court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. That is most unfortunate.
Left unsaid by Alito is that the Biden administration will be able to continue censoring opposing views into 2024 as the presidential campaign continues to get underway.
The Biden administration claimed that being unable to censor political dissent during a presidential campaign would cause “irreparable harm” while Alito argues that censoring political dissent will cause “irreparable harm”.
Roberts, Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett sided with the Biden administration. That does not bode well for the actual case, but we shall see. If the Biden administration wins this one, the First Amendment effectively becomes a dead letter on the internet.
Should a president be able to censor his political opponents? Stay tuned.
Don’t you have any fight? Don’t you have any soul? Is all you have what you can sell to fools?
Una. How many times do I have to tell you? Take it easy on the gin.
vino veritas I guess Jeff
Yeah, me too.
I’m drinking right now and it’s only 10:30 in the morning in California.
I need another girlfriend to set me right. Or at least keep me from being a complete derelict.
GW Bush, the Deep State and Roberts conspired and lied to get his appointment through the Senate and he has been a traitor to conservatism since he entered the Supreme Court. (remember his word salad in supporting Obamacare). It now appears that Kavanaugh and Barrett are apart of the same Deep State cabal. The Democrats and the Deep State did a masterful job at building the cover stories for both Cavanaugh and Barrett. When are conservatives going to wake up an understand that there is NO ONE in the Government, the media and the Corporate world that truly stands with them. Everything we see and hear about our government is a lie, perpetrated by the media and supported by the Corporations. Voting, by the average American, is a sham and a wasted effort.
And I understand that the fascist Democ-rats have proposed a bill to limit the term of Supreme Court Justices to 14 years. But, you say, the constitution provides for lifetime appointments for such justices in order to insulate them from election politics. Yes, but other than you, who the heck cares about the constitution? Certainly not a majority of the Supreme Court Justices.
In the meantime King Charles mourns the grievous loss his stupidity actualised. Same with Biden. Don’t mention how they brought us to this point. Just trip on their sympathy.
“King” Charles. It’s going to take me awhile to get used to that.
And he has the same jug ears as Bareback Hasbeen Obama.
Sickening, the slimy little lying fascist. And everyone here in gb thinks he’s so wonderful.
Yes, he really likes those islamopithecines. And I know he read about Charles George Gordon and other British victims of the islamopithecines when he was in school.
Shit, I’m American and the fate of Sir Charles pissed me off.
Obviously Hamas is not going to fight directly unless they absolutely have to. Direct confrontation is our style, It’s not their style. Actually they think we’re stupid flexing. So this is what I think seeing straight lines of devastation leading to Hamas.
Yeah, their style has been ambush, deception and such for millennia.
Yes, like the original assassins.
They’re not going to fight that way which is why Biden is so important.
Greatest special ops in the word with dumbass or malevolent leadership.
Can someone shoot me an email after Una is gone? Honest to God, it’s like going through a lunatic’s sock drawer.
Most of our Nations News is like the horns of a steer a Point here A Point there and lot of bull in-between
So those 3 Supreme Court “justices” don’t want Donald Trump to campaign anymore than the malicious bused and nutty judges at a lower level do. And they sure don’t want Trump to win!
Obviously, he wants to campaign and respond when accused or maligned. They want him to only respond after a conviction do their press can call him “ convicted”
I actually do not think he needs to say much or even campaign much. He’s already gotten the word out there. The more they do to thwart him, the more popular he becomes.
What’s awful is the precedent. Not that there’s an alternate party or structure to ever do the save back to them. We learned that definitively this week.
But that should Trump lose, we live in an even more degraded and more totalitarian country. Just in case there ever is another candidate of merit that the people may want in office. That future candidate can be censored by those holding power.
This isn’t even about Donald Trump anymore.
I know this is a silly one but now that Biden is on Truth social, it could be fun to put “ BS” notices on his campaign posts.
Of course they won’t do, and it doesn’t matter, it but it could be amusing.
This issue is not as “black and white” as it might seen.. Do we REALLY want to prevent FPM from censoring Hamas trolls who post comments claiming that Israel is attacking hosptitals and schools in Gaza? I don’t think so.