“Terrible decision. Basically it’s unclear who, if anyone, has standing to sue when the gov jawbones a media outlet to stifle criticism, and it ignores the mountain of evidence presented showing censorship, as Alito points out.”
On this matter, Alito would be the activist judge legislating from the bench that we all fear. Jawboning the media is what every government entity does. When the government starts passing legislation or formal rules for controlling what the media presents, then we’d have an actual 1st Amendment violation.
For God’s sake, read the decision.
There was no examination of whether or not coercion happened. The lawsuit was so stupidly structured that evaluation of the events actually taking place was never judged.
THE PLAINTIFFS LACKED STANDING, and how could they not know that? Monumental stupidity. Probably money involved. The lawyers bringing the suit made no effort to establish standing. There must be clear injury to the specific parties brining the lawsuit, and politics does not qualify as injury.
You're ignoring how this works.
All of the legal guaranties of the Constitution are meaningless if the state and major institutions are controlled by a party of like-minded individuals acting in concert to suppress your rights.
It's like a cop asking a bystander to beat you after you're handcuffed and then claiming you have no excessive force claim because he didn't do it.