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In June 2024, the Supreme Court ruled in the case
Murthy v. Missouri (formerly
Missouri v. Biden), blocking attempts to limit communications between the Biden administration and social media companies. By a 6–3 decision, the Court held that the plaintiffs, who included two Republican-led states and several social media users, lacked the legal standing to sue for an injunction.
Background of the lawsuit
- Initial lawsuit: The case originated with a July 2023 ruling by U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Louisiana, which issued a broad preliminary injunction against the government.
- Lower court's reasoning: Doughty's ruling was based on the accusation that the Biden administration had unconstitutionally censored speech by pressuring social media companies to remove certain content, especially regarding COVID-19 and the 2020 election.
- Appeals court: The Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals later narrowed the injunction but largely upheld the idea that administration officials had likely coerced companies to suppress speech, violating the First Amendment.
nclalegal.org
Washington, DC (July 5, 2023) – Judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana has
granted a preliminary injunction prohibiting several federal agencies and specific White House officials from pressuring or coordinating with social media companies to suppress constitutionally-protected speech. The New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonpartisan nonprofit civil liberties group, celebrates this major victory for its clients Drs. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Martin Kulldorff and Aaron Kheriaty and Jill Hines in the case of
Missouri, et al. v. Biden, et al.
Three of NCLA’s clients are distinguished scientists who, because of state action, were blacklisted, shadow-banned, de-boosted, throttled, and censored on social media for merely articulating views opposed to government-approved views on Covid-19 restrictions and regulations. Jill Hines was a dissenter from mandatory vaccines and lockdowns who also had her media posts throttled. Their ordeal was part of a lawless and expansive campaign by federal officials across at least eleven agencies and sub-agencies who employed illicit tactics—including coercion, collusion and coordination—on social media companies to suppress the airing of disfavored perspectives. The agencies directed such companies to censor viewpoints that conflicted with federal government messaging on topics ranging from Covid-19 to elections.