Posted on 08/22/2024 1:50:43 PM PDT by CFW
A federal judge ruled Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can continue to pursue his censorship lawsuit against the Biden administration.
The Supreme Court ruled in June that state and individual plaintiffs who alleged the Biden administration violated their First Amendment rights when it pressured social media companies to suppress speech did not have standing to sue. District Court Judge Terry Doughty found Kennedy meets the standard set by the Supreme Court because there is “ample evidence” to show he has been censored in the past at the direction of government actors and “substantial risk” that the censorship will continue.
Under the Supreme Court’s Murthy v. Missouri ruling, Doughty explained that “a court must make specific findings that a particular defendant pressured a particular platform to censor a particular topic before the platform suppressed a particular plaintiff’s speech on that topic.”
“The Court finds that there is further risk for future risk injury here because Kennedy is a 2024 presidential candidate,” Doughty wrote. “For example, if, hypothetically, the FBI saw a piece of information related to the 2024 presidential election posted by the Kennedy campaign on social media that it deemed to be ‘misinformation,’ then it reached out to CISA, who worked closely with the EIP, who then removed the posts, Kennedy would be censored by the action of one Government Defendant in response to another.”
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“It is gratifying that Judge Doughty found RFK, Jr. and Children’s Health Defense have standing, even under the draconian requirements the Supreme Court developed in Murthy,” New Civil Liberties Alliance litigation counsel Jenin Younes told the Daily Caller News Foundation. “We are assessing next steps for the Murthy plaintiffs in light of Judge Doughty’s opinion, which will also assist us in crafting discovery requests to ensure we can demonstrate standing going forward.”
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This is another example of how stupid and broken is our idiot court system. *THIS JUDGE* gets it right, but he has only had to act because the *OTHER JUDGES* got it so wrong.
They dismissed for "lack of standing" everyone else's attempts to hold the Biden Administration accountable for pressuring the corrupt big tech companies to censoring his political opponents.
This should have not been dismissed for lack of standing. *EVERYONE* is injured by big tech censorship, so *ANYONE* should be seen as having standing.
Thankfully this one Judge has now opened up a pathway by which this absolutely necessary case may be moved forward.
DEMOCRAPS are vampires.
According to many courts (including SCOTUS) American citizens have little “standing” when it comes to their Constitutional rights.
It’s incredible the no standing argument
And yes ive seen SCOTUS wheel out that excuse before too.
It’s intolerable and should end
And yes ive seen SCOTUS wheel out that excuse before too.
It’s intolerable and should end
Agree.
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