Posted on 07/12/2023 8:42:05 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
On Monday, President Joe Biden played his cards. He’s all bluff, no aces.
Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit that accuses him and his team of, in federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty’s words, “the most massive attack against free speech in the United States.”
Yet the appeal Biden filed Monday is devoid of even one convincing argument in his own defense.
Count on the appeal to go nowhere. Biden’s been caught red-handed violating the Constitution.
On July 4, Doughty announced that the evidence produced so far indicates the president is operating a vast, illegal censorship scheme to muzzle his critics.
Doughty knows tyranny when he sees it: He’s got the goods on the Biden administration, and he laid out his evidence in 155 pages, all meticulously footnoted.
Biden, numerous White House staff and employees of 11 federal agencies are being sued for operating a whole-of-government censorship operation to prevent you — the public — from seeing social-media postings that challenge Biden policies on issues like vaccines, climate change, inflation and more.
Not to mention any postings that mock Biden family members.
Straight out of Kim Jong Un’s playbook.
Doughty cited “ample evidence”— emails, meeting notes, sworn testimony and correspondence — showing the Biden administration strong-arming media platforms into serving as government censors.
The Constitution bars the government from censoring, so Biden is coercing social media to do the dirty work for him.
That, reasons the judge, is just as unconstitutional.
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(Yawn)
And the penalties are.... ????
Where this case goes simply depends on the judges, and unless the judges are conservatives, then the Constitution will have NOTHING TO DO with the ruling.
That’s how demented the people running the Ukraine War are.
The detail is important. The judge made findings of fact, which are much harder to reverse on appeal than rulings on the law.
But there will be HUGE pressure on the appeal court to reverse this injunction. I hope the judges that get picked to hear the appeal have really clean hands.
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Government will continue on censoring, business as usual. The government will just ignore this ruling. The rule of law only works with a morale society and that horse left the barn a long time ago.
There is a name for a political system that coopts and strong arms businesses and media into carrying out its agenda
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