Posted on 03/18/2024 1:00:02 PM PDT by bitt
This morning the Supreme Court held oral argument in the case that is now styled Murthy v. Missouri. C-SPAN has posted audio of the oral argument here.
The case arises from the government’s “encouragement” of censorship by the social media platforms, as documented in the Twitter Files. We have followed the case as it has wended its way through the district court to the Fifth Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. We (I) have been pulling for the plaintiffs.
The Supreme Court has already entered an order staying the narrowed preliminary injunction that had been fashioned by the Fifth Circuit while the case is pending before the Court. Justices Alito dissented from the stay. In his dissent he was joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch. I thought the Supreme Court stay was a bad sign of the likely outcome of the case.
In the event this morning, the plaintiff/respondents complaining of the government’s encouragement of censorship on social media platforms suffered a bloodbath, if I may use that word in its colloquial sense. If I am not allowed to use that word in its colloquial sense, I would say that the plaintiff/respondents had a bad day in Court.
I listened to the oral argument in order to assess the likely outcome of this interlocutory appeal. I think it is likely that the preliminary injunction stayed by the Supreme Court will be vacated and that the Fifth Circuit decision will be reversed. I am rashly reading the omens of the give-and-take in the argument like a Roman soothsayer examining entrails.
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I very much appreciate the detailed explanation.
But what does this mean?
” I think it is likely that the preliminary injunction stayed by the Supreme Court will be vacated and that the Fifth Circuit decision will be reversed. “
Did the Fifth Circuit vote in favor of the gov’t? Or the 1A?
Why is “BloodBath” suddenly the word of the week ?
i don’t understand this either
BTTT
-PJ
Pelosi use it on a Sunday show.
BTTT!!!
Trump used the term in a speech this weekend referring to the American auto industry and china . The media is taking it out of context and going bat $heesh crazy . Nothing unusual .
However, during the Obamacare arguments it seemed the Court would rule against it but they did not.
Listening today, 6-3 decision in favor of Biden administration is my prediction. Hope I am wrong.
1A
I don’t think it’s an understatement to say this case could historically be in the same category as Roe v. Wade, Brown v Board of Education, etc..
In this case, the Government was coercing or using social media companies to censor free speech it doesn’t approve on, the Government worked hand in hand to censor Covid information, Vaccine Information and many other examples.
The twitter files showed this conclusively.
If the government thru social media companies is allowed to censor anything they don’t like, then the 1st Amendment will be null and void.
This case is the first case before the Supreme Court in the Technological age of the Government Censoring Free Speech by using proxies and if allowed to happen free speech will be dead.
More here for my fellow cat person...
I would love to know who got me banned on Twitter years ago and why...
The case was originally Missouri vs. Biden where Biden was the Defendant? That made sense. Somehow this morphed into Murthy vs. Missouri and yet this author still speaks of the gooberment as the Plaintiff? That doesn't make much sense. What of the "/Respondent", somehow I thought that was the Defendant responding to the charges?
Does the Plaintiff somehow become the Respondent in an appeal?
In case it is even more unclear, Murthy is the foreign born Indian (dot) heritage current sturgeon general that just looks queer as a three dollar bill.
What did the non-biologist who takes her ignorance as a badge of honor have to say?
That was a rhetorical question.
Normally you cannot tell how justices will vote by their questions in oral argument, at least not the good ones. Often they will press the side they are inclined to go with hard to see if there is a weakness or argument in favor that they missed. The other side they have already provisionally discounted.
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