Posted on 03/20/2023 2:19:17 PM PDT by CFW
A federal judge ruled against the Biden administration’s efforts to dismiss a case involving online censorship Monday, saying that the states of Missouri and Louisiana had “plausibly alleged” First Amendment violations.
United States District Judge Terry A. Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana denied the Biden administration’s motion to dismiss a suit brought on May 5 by Republican Attorneys General Erik Schmitt of Missouri and Jeff Landry of Louisiana. Schmitt and Landry said the Biden administration colluded with social media companies to censor debate on multiple issues, including the 2020 presidential election and the COVID-19 pandemic.
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From the judge’s ruling:
“Plaintiffs have clearly and plausibly alleged that Defendants engaged in viewpoint discrimination and prior restraints. As discussed in great detail above, Plaintiffs allege a regime of censorship that targets specific viewpoints deemed mis-, dis-, or malinformation by federal officials,” Doughty added. “Because Plaintiffs allege that Defendants are targeting particular views taken by speakers on a specific subject, they have alleged a clear violation of the First Amendment, i.e., viewpoint discrimination. Moreover, Plaintiffs allege that Defendants, by placing bans, shadow-bans, and other forms of restrictions on Plaintiffs’ social-media accounts, are engaged in de facto prior restraints, another clear violation of the First Amendment.”
Laws are made to punish conservatives and reward Marxists and BLM.
Once we learn that we can relax and stop tormenting ourselves trying to figure it all out.
Like professional wrestling, it’s fixed.
Well, according to joementia, they aren’t “absolute” anyway. 🤔
They have the paychecks of embedded Feds to prove it.
Unfortunately, the Supreme Court many years ago, Created out of thin air, a “legal fiction” called, Qualified Immunity. Until they reverse their MADE UP LAW, nothing will happen.
Ya think??
REPUBLICANS - WHERE ARE YOU?
Do you have any idea of what the D’s would be doing? Investigations! Impeachment hearings! We only have one side engaging in Lawfare! If it goes unchecked it’ll just continue (ahem PDJT!). How about we give the goose the same as the gander, maybe they’ll think twice before engaging in the insanity.
The ends justified the means.
Not a damn thing will happen to any of them.
So how much in damages are they going to assess?
These AG’s ought to seek relief in the form of permanent secession from the federal government since the federal government has wantonly violated the constitution and $1 Trillion in damages for their citizens.
It depends on how well you can misinterpret the Constitution.
And just consider - if this can be whipped up using open source tools by people at Stanford - tagging and censoring BILLIONS of social media posts on every platform known to man - consider how far the spooks in the Deep State have come.
And consider this, as well - they've moved on, not really publicly, but hidden in plain sight, to not "disinformation", not "misinformation", but "malinformation" - that's something that's true, but that does not serve Big Brother.
A lot of the drones working on the Virality Project are apparently undergraduates, doing what they are doing because they are desperate to be well thought of by the Big People behind all this.
It makes the recent Red Front eruption at Stanford more understandable. They are turning out Red Guards, who are now allowed to operate in the open.
This is American Stasi, built right under our noses - and it is not going to be easy to remove.
Ya think?
Seems that should be enough to trigger some felony indictments or grand jury seating?
biden did, and it’s a real crime, not what they are accusing Trump of. When do they arrest biden?
This is a rule on a motion to dismiss based upon the pleadings. The allegations in the pleadings at this stage are assumed to be true and the only question is whether they are legally sufficient to sustain a trial by a finder of fact.
At this point, it is not for the judge to determine what did, in fact, happen, but only if it did happen as alleged it would be a violation of law and that it is within the powers of the court to provide relief.
The system is no longer capable of reform from within. Who do you imagine is going to seat these grand juries and try these cases, and hear their appeals?
My heavens, there are patriots in pretrial detention for >2 years! That oddball with the Viking getup was denied exculpatory evidence in possession of the government which is an automatic dismissal for misconduct, and no motions have been filed.
The “two parties” are in on this together, and voting harder won’t change that.
Irrelevant because this is a suit presumably to enjoin the government from acting agains the first ammendment rights of the citizens of the US. It is about the actions of the government qua goverment, and is not tryig to personally hold federal officials accountable individually.
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