In a previous ruling in the case of The State of Missouri v Joe Biden, Judge Terry Doughty agreed with the state position that evidence had clearly shown agencies of the U.S. government had infringed upon First Amendment free speech in targeting social media companies with demands for content removal. [Ruling and Injunction pdf]
The social media companies outlined in the state lawsuit include Facebook, Instagram, Meta Platforms Inc, Twitter, Google and YouTube. Evidence provided by the states showed clear and convincing evidence the government was unlawfully monitoring social media and telling the platforms to remove content adverse to their interests.
The judge outlined an emergency injunction barring government agencies such as the Department of Health and Human Services and the FBI from talking to social media companies for “the purpose of urging, encouraging, pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion, suppression, or reduction of content containing protected free speech” under the First Amendment of the U.S. Constitution. The ruling provided narrow exceptions.
Obviously, given the scale of government involved censorship of speech within social media, the injunction was a major loss to the Biden regime, who operate -in part- with the benefit of controlling public opinion and information. The judicial ruling disrupts the ability of the Biden administration to censor the online speech of Americans.
As a result of the injunction, the DOJ is now asking Judge Doughty to stay or pause his injunction while the government files a full appeal to the 5th circuit court of appeals.
(Reuters) – The Biden administration on Thursday asked a federal judge to put on hold his earlier order barring some government agencies and officials from meeting and communicating with social media companies about moderating their content.
In a filing before U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty in Monroe, Louisiana, the administration said the judge’s Tuesday ruling was “both sweeping in scope and vague in its terms,” and likely to be overturned on appeal.
The administration appealed the order to the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals on Wednesday. If Doughty refuses to pause his own order, the administration will likely ask the 5th Circuit to do so instead while it considers the appeal.
Doughty’s order came in a lawsuit brought by Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri and by several individuals. They alleged that U.S. government officials effectively coerced social media companies to censor posts over concerns they would fuel vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic or upend elections. (read more)
I assume the currently installed DOJ will argue that what they do is necessary as a matter of national security in order to combat white supremacy and MAGA terrorists. Judge usually ignores the Constitution and bends over at that point. They call it the Patriot Act for a reason.
Same way they deny Trump and other innocent citizens access to the evidence they need to defend themselves against tax payer funded illegal lawfare terrorists within the politically weaponized institutions.
You never know exactly when the worm turns, but it does turn.
U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty has shouted to the world….. the creepy king’s intelligent agencies have no clothes on.
Now the ball is in Justice Robert’s court…… no pun intended.
They have manufactured law before to protect the intel agencies … let’s see what they do this time.
Until the Supreme Court puts on its big boy and girl pants and does something about corrupt elections, instead of enshrining them, I will continue to believe their “positive” social decisions are intended to stir sh*t and get the left engaged with fake anger protests activated to perpetuate division and chaos.
*Ketanji Brown is probably the first Supreme Court Justice installed as a direct result of election fraud.
Mass Psychosis,
They have worked hard to earn the “not-so-supreme-court” moniker.
Too bad they don’t work just as hard to fulfill their oath of office and act as a defender of our Constitutional Republic.
America and Americans deserve better from 1/4 of our federal government.
Thanks for your comments. You do a great job.
We need more Justices like Justice Clarence Thomas, There is at least one more that generally stands for the truth. Roberts and Barrett are washouts. As you say the Not No Supreme Court.
Perhaps its Hopium, but after the 3 recent rulings, I am willing to hold out a little hope.
Nothing focuses the mind, like the prospect of being hung.
Perhaps the recent episode where the SCOTUS Justices were “doxxed” focused their minds,..
It wasn’t JUST the decisions handed down, but the way the opinions were written, that gives me pause.
And I think a really GOOD couple of election cases, that got padt the “standing” barricade are headed their way,..so “lets see what happens”.
Leftists always have a great excuse why the Constitution should violated to allow one of their Democrat agendas and equally great excuse why it must be violated to deny your Constitutionally protected rights!
“She”?
Is she sure?
She’s not just absolutely incorrect, she’s an absolute abomination to the rule of law, to common sense, and to national unity of purpose.
There was a .2% benefit from black pediatricians. If there is a 2 in the number, it must double something. Unless you’re doing racist white math.
Not to mention, if Ketanji was so concerned about Black babies survival, she’d be dead set against Planned Parenthood.
Cognitive dissonance, indeed.
Interesting that * is both used in sh*t and *Ketanji Brown. Perfect fit in both cases. Bravo, Mass P!
Have no doubt that Roberts and Kavanaugh would side with the 3 lib justices to overturn the lower court ruling of Judge Doughty. Kavanaugh believes the government is always right and there should be no check on its power. Roberts is a total squish and will rule for anything that damages Trump.
Well, Kavanaugh was an architect of the Patriot Act, so I’m not optimistic…
Obama’s election was a fraud because he wasn’t a natural born citizen. Supreme court turned down discussing his eligibility 5 times. Secretary of state in Georgia punted when the issue came before her. Two employees of John Brennan’s company hacked into Obama’s passport records (along with Hillary’s and Mccain’s). Brennan (who admitted to once voting or a communist) became cia director.
*Ketanji Brown is probably the first Supreme Court Justice installed as a direct result of election fraud.
This statement needs to be repeated over and over until people get it.
They probably want to defer those decisions to the several State Courts where there is a Constitutional power to run all elections under State rules, according to our US Constitution. I think SCOTUS can rule that the guilty States must repair their State election laws to prevent the kinds of Unconstitutional corruption that occurred, also according to our US Constitution. It may take a while to get to these decisions at the Federal level.
The “Supreme Court” cares not about the constitution or free speech and they ALL spit on it.
Their political beliefs are what drive them and I personally believe Clarence Thomas is the only one who follows the true law.
To many catlickers bow to the black pope (not skin color) and do what they are instructed to do.
Doubt it matters one what or the other because the installed regime doesn’t follow any laws or rules unless they want to.
There IS the real queztion of if the Govt. continued, how would we know, and PROVE they were violating the order?
Alito’s pretty good.
That’s Robert’s forte, making up siht and calling it “law.”
True, they could argue that, but what Judge Doughty provided seems like they were suppressing anything but national security content.
I was sort of being sarcastic too. In reality there is no valid argument for the government.
If the DOJ uses the Patriot Act within their appeal this could be the hornet’s nest their arrogance kicks wide open – if this appeal works its way up to the Supreme Court, big IF, could this be the Court that rules the Patriot Act itself as unconstitutional?
Fingers crossed to make it so; Prayers continue.
I remember a time, when the Patriot Act was passed that the Left itself called it unconstitutional and an aberration against individual rights. It will be fun to see them eat themselves and cry more.
Even after they’re caught red handed, they can’t help themselves from resorting to more Fascism.
So appealing is paramount to admitting they are committing a crime against the constitution and want to continue.
These people are accustomed to winning in Federal Court with Bolshevik judges and minority juries. They don’t take losing lightly!
They just handed Trump a fantastic campaign talking point. Any more, DOJ?
The very fact that they would appeal such a monstrosity should damn them, and their counterparts to hell!
Appealing to the 5th Circuit, eh?
If memory serves on that Court’s previous judgments and rulings, methinks there will be a lot of sad and mad faces in the despotic administration we are suffering under.
I certainly pray so.
Me also and hope the judge does not set aside his injunction.
“opposition to the validity of the 2020 election”
Finally, U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty mentions it and shatters the Overton Window for good……he has gone to the MAGA Window for a truthful view of the world……..
He mentioned the “unmentionable” ……. that is all it takes to shatter the PsyOps’ Overton Window…… R E S I S T.
Once you see the PsyOps’s Overton window, you can’t unsee it.
The only way out of this is going to require a lot of trees and a lot of rope. They are NEVER going to stop.
Michael Goodwin comes to mind. “We can’t vote our way out of this”.
But if gubmint and social media are not the arbiters, which they deserve to be because of their élite level virtue, we might get into never ending proxy wars with billions sent overseas with no accounting, the citizens would not know that truth about transitory inflation being a good thing for families, what about millions of new migrants that we are so fortunately financially responsible for, would we know that living within our means is not as fulfilling as paycheck to paycheck, and a myriad of things that the gubmint’s inherent honesty and goodness brings us.
The First Amendment to the United States Constitution
is the part of the United States Bill of Rights that protects
the right of the people to Religion and Expression.
As ratified by the States:
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
“Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment
of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press;
or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and
to petition the Government for a redress of grievances.”
Infuriating to read that a few times slowly, and think about the myriad of ways government has violated it in every way. Removing any vestige of religion from schools and the town square, then jailing pastors who wanted to hold service during the COVID nonsense.
Censoring speech repeatedly, particularly on any social media platform if it went against their narrative.
Removing certain members of the press when they didn’t toe the line, or flat-out targeting them as with Sharyl Atkisson.
The last one about having a right to peaceably assemble went out the window on J6 and continues to be violated.
Yet hundreds of feral goobermint flunkies have never been held accountable for these violations while RINO’s in Congress dither.
Treeper Patriots—Grab your freedom, hold on tight, and never let it go!
So, clearly they are still engaged in violating the Constitution.
I’m starting to think that the judiciary realizes that if they don’t start rolling back the government abuses in their own way, it will eventually not matter what they will rule because NOBODY will follow the law at that point. This may turn out to provide a nice amount of sunlight to show the corruption.
The government’s appeal should make it clear to all rational Americans that this is a tyrannical government. They are told not to infringe on our first amendment, free speech and adamantly fight to do so. The government is well out of control and needs to be reigned in or replaced.
Judges stand for what? Protecting the deep state is my opinion. I’ve noticed over a lot of years of observation, they will bend over when orders are issued by the politicians and deep state.
Jeff Landry, the Louisiana attorney general, said in a statement that the judge’s order was “historic.”
Missouri’s attorney general, Andrew Bailey,
hailed the ruling as a “huge win in the fight to defend our most fundamental freedoms.”
Both officials are Republican.
Both officials are MAGA Republican, then.
Graham or McCarthy if being truthful would condemn the Judges ruling.
I thought Brandon appealing this Constitutional ruling was bad, but asking for a stay while a 1-2 year appeal is adjudicated is about as shameless (& transparent, given the upcoming election) as it gets.
“Freedom is not a gift from government; freedom is a gift from God.”–Our Actual President Donald Trump
“I spurn it—as every Man, who regards that liberty, & reveres that Justice for which we contend, undoubtedly must—for if Men are to be precluded from offering their sentiments on a matter, which may involve the most serious and alarming consequences, that can invite the consideration of Mankind; reason is of no use to us—the freedom of Speech may be taken away—and, dumb & silent we may be led, like sheep, to the Slaughter.” –Gen. George Washington to Officers
of the Army, March 15, 1783
“You do not define the First Amendment; it defines you. And it is bigger than you. Big enough to embrace all of you, plus all of those you would exclude. That’s how freedom works. This is their first freedom. If you say it’s outdated, then you haven’t read your own headlines. I want to rescue the Second Amendment from an opportunistic president and from a press that apparently can’t comprehend that attacks on the Second Amendment set the stage for assaults on the First.”–Charlton Heston
“I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”–English writer Evelyn Beatrice Hall, in her biography of Lefty blogger François-Marie Arouet, aka; “Voltaire”, who did say this: “Think for yourselves and let others enjoy the privilege to do so too.”
“There is Freedom of Speech, but I cannot guarantee freedom after speech.”— Noted Antifa cannibal His Excellency, President-for-Life, Field Marshall, Al Hadji Doctor Idi Amin Dada, VC, DSO, MC, Lord of All the Beasts of the Earth, Fishes of the Sea, and Conqueror of the British Empire in Africa in General and Uganda in Particular. Also Berkeley.
“Liberty is meaningless where the right to utter one’s thoughts and opinions has ceased to exist. That, of all rights, is the dread of tyrants. It is the right which they first of all strike down. They know its power. Thrones, dominions, principalities, and powers, founded in injustice and wrong, are sure to tremble, if men are allowed to reason… Equally clear is the right to hear. To suppress free speech is a double wrong. It violates the rights of the hearer as well as those of the speaker.”--Frederick Douglass
“What the Covid-19 panic has revealed, and continues to reveal, is the managerial elite has no respect for things like the rule of law, individual liberty or any of the other foundation items of consensual government. To protect democracy, they will rig the election process. To keep us free they will strip us of our rights. In the name of inclusion and diversity they will exclude anyone who disagrees. What we are seeing is that the real plague on our society is the ruling class.”— Z-Man
“Everyone is in favor of free speech. Hardly a day passes without its being extolled, but some people’s idea of it is that they are free to say what they like, but if anyone else says anything back, that is an outrage.”― Winston Churchill
“The state can’t give you free speech, and the state can’t take it away. You’re born with it, like your eyes, like your ears. Freedom is something you assume, then you wait for someone to try to take it away. The degree to which you resist is the degree to which you are free…”― Utah Phillips
“Goebbels was in favor of free speech for views he liked. So was Stalin. If you’re really in favor of free speech, then you’re in favor of freedom of speech for precisely the views you despise. Otherwise, you’re not in favor of free speech.”― Noam Chomsky
“The idea that you have to be protected from any kind of uncomfortable emotion is what I absolutely do not subscribe to.”― John Cleese
“Laws forbidding dissent do not prevent subversive activities; they merely drive them into more secret and more dangerous channels. Police states are not secure; their history is marked by successive purges, and growing concentration camps, as their governments strike out blindly in fear of violent revolt. Once a government is committed to the principle of silencing the voice of opposition, it has only one way to go, and that is down the path of increasingly repressive measures, until it becomes a source of terror to all its citizens and creates a country where everyone lives in fear. We must, therefore, be on our guard against extremists who urge us to adopt police state measures. Such persons advocate breaking down the guarantees of the Bill of Rights in order to get at the [enemy]. They forget that if the Bill of Rights were to be broken down, all groups…would be in danger from the arbitrary power of government.”–Actual President Truman, Special Message to the Congress on the Internal Security of the United States, August 8, 1950
“Whoever would overthrow the liberty of a nation must begin by subduing the freeness of speech.”— Postmaster General Benjamin Franklin, “Silence Dogood”, 1722
They say they are all-knowing, all-wise, all-moral and always correct, so they can censor “disinformation”.
But they are really censoring “disagreement”
F*ck off, fascists.
Obama isn’t intelligent enough to shine Mussolini’s boots!
True. But he grasps the tyranny.
“Anti-individualistic, the Fascist conception of life stresses the importance of the State and accepts the individual only in so far as his interests coincide with those of the State, which stands for the conscience and the universal, will of man as a historic entity. It is opposed to classical liberalism which arose as a reaction to absolutism and exhausted its historical function when the State became the expression of the conscience and will of the people. Liberalism denied the State in the name of the individual; Fascism reasserts the rights of the State as expressing the real essence of the individual. And if liberty is to he the attribute of living men and not of abstract dummies invented by individualistic liberalism, then Fascism stands for liberty, and for the only liberty worth having, the liberty of the State and of the individual within the State. The Fascist conception of the State is all embracing; outside of it no human or spiritual values can exist, much less have value. Thus understood, Fascism, is totalitarian, and the Fascist State–a synthesis and a unit inclusive of all values – interprets, develops, and potentates the whole life of a people.”
–“The Doctrine of Fascism”, Benito Mussolini
Think about it like this: the government essentially got caught red-handed censoring and violating the First Amendment in proportions that should invite armed revolution. But the response from the government was to file a judicial appeal that such gross censorship and Constitutional violation is not only warranted, but Constitutional?
Question: does the government really believe their appeal will be successful? If so, why? And if the government’s appeal is successful, then perhaps we should all reconsider our circumstances.
Hear hear M-C!! Well said !!
I believe the problem is bigger than just the Biden administration. It is the IC.
Remember, the censoring was before Trump, during Trump and obviously will continue beyond Biden.
Pffft.
Why drag out the inevitable? Judge Doughty made it so clear the Cavemen on the left could understand it. Nothing was vague about this at all.
Hopefully he holds fast since I assume the 5th Circus would have to have rather compelling reasons to stay the injunction.
Katie Hobbs: “Go F*ck Yourself” wait for it….
This is another example why Constitutional Free Speech was suppressed by the currently installed regime.
That is the look of someone who knows they are a criminal and a fraud.
And who is afraid
The Leftist Death Cult, Biden Junta, Academia, and MDM-MSM (but I repeat myself quattro) are going all-in on pro-Pedophilia, pro-Child Sex / Human / Drug Trafficking, pro-Crushing of Free Speech, and pro-Cocaine in The White House.
It’s a glorious thing … the gaslighting, humiliation, and rubbing our faces in feces is part of the kink.
I guess that this means that they are admitting that they ask “private” businesses to censor free speech which is similar to hiring a hit man to do your dirty work.
The corrupt fascist Biden administration will get this in front of a 3 judge panel in the 5th circuit comprised of some combination of Obama and GW Bush appointees. They will plead national security and the judges will immediately find for them. Most conservative appointees will always side with national security claims of the government. They fail to realize it’s a different world now and the government is corrupt.
“…the administration will likely ask the 5th Circuit”
And the 5th Circit will uphold the order. They are the reason the CFPB is in trouble. I ❤️ the 5th Circuit
Besides the obvious commentary about US Government censorship …. What is most interesting is the source of the article … Reuters … a FOREIGN owned news service.
It is most interesting because la la landers first retort to these types of stories is that “it was not on on US MSM” … and … that is quickly followed by “it must be a some social media rumor”.
Alternative foreign news services are not on the la la land reading list.
By challenging the ruling they are admitting their guilt…..
Missouri and Louisiana have already said they will take it to SCOTUS.
This ruling hit a real nerve to have them run around like their Titanic was sinking under them.
One more reason to remove the Demcommies from the government.
And the Rinocommies with them.
Irrelevant ruling since the Left will abide by the U.N.’s agenda to impose control over media in the event of an “emergency”.
Doughty’s ruling was very convincing to numerous judiciary experts and to this legal layman. I think the administration’s play is to get a stay from the Fifth Circuit during its deliberations in order to both elongate the period during which the censorship may continue and to enable implementation of a Plan B framework focused upon achieving the same result.
If the appeal pushes the case to the SCOTUS, it seems surely to be a loser. However, until then the issue for the Dems is too large to lose.
The thing is, this case made it thru to the DISCOVERY phase, and the Govt. and mefia left a huge paper trail,…they weren’t even trying to be sly sbout it.
Case was intiated by TGP, an “alt-right” rebel alliance website, not the NYT.
Our rebel alliance is kivking their MSM’s *ss, all around the block.
THEY are NOT winning, WE are.
I’ve only used YouTube. Never used any of those other platforms. That’s how I work to destroy them. If everybody else did that, they wouldn’t even exist.
About 15 years ago, YouTube blocked me from my account because I refused to sign up to Google (gmail.)
They blocked my IP address, so I couldn’t even log in to cancel my account. I had to call a friend to do it.
Pure evil. Worse, I’ve never been able to convince a single person I know of thier collusion to destroy this nation. They all still use those platforms today.
Meta was quick to begin the censorship on its new Twitter look-alike, Threads. I wonder if the Administration is ignoring the injunction…
The fact this is even happening is justification to not accept the appeal. . .
OK… let me see if I got this straight. We have an administration that is tromping the hell out of the 1st amendment. So a judge issues a ruling saying “you can’t do that” – when the 1st amendment already says that. And I can expect TPTB to instantly conform to the judges order? LOL… Reminds me a bunch gun laws directed, supposedly, at law breaking scoundrels. They’re breaking the law so, by golly, we’ll just create another law, and another, and another, and another…
Puredee BS.
This is all theater.
Yet another judicial action that appears to uphold the Constitution while actually enabling the unconstitutional overreach to continue, by instructing on how to use loopholes to get around the ruling!
The Injunction (linked below) includes vague subjective exceptions that may be broadly applied. Quoting the Injunction:
“IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that the following actions are NOT prohibited by this
Preliminary Injunction:
(1) informing social-media companies of postings involving criminal activity or
criminal conspiracies;
(2) contacting and/or notifying social-media companies of national security threats,
extortion, or other threats posted on its platform;
(3) contacting and/or notifying social-media companies about criminal efforts to suppress voting, to provide illegal campaign contributions, of cyber-attacks against election infrastructure, or foreign attempts to influence elections;
(4) informing social-media companies of threats that threaten the public safety or security of the United States;
(5) exercising permissible public government speech promoting government policies or views on matters of public concern;
(6) informing social-media companies of postings intending to mislead voters about voting requirements and procedures;
(7) informing or communicating with social-media companies in an effort to detect, prevent, or mitigate malicious cyber activity;
(8) communicating with social-media companies about deleting, removing, suppressing, or reducing posts on social-media platforms that are not protected free speech by the Free Speech Clause in the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.”
(End of quote)
What consitutes a “threat” in #4? Could be nearly anything, this is subjective. How about factual information about covid “vaccines” ineffectiveness and harm? This entire case is based on government censoring such factual information that the government claims “posed a threat to public safety and security” – and the Injunction explicitly allows this overreach to continue!
#7 is a doozy: CISA defines your thoughts as “Cognitive Infrastructure” as part of their charter to control in the cyber domain, and therefore “malicious cyber activity” could be anything in the cyber domain that influences your thoughts in a manner they find to be “malicious”.
Every one of the exceptions could be stretched similarly to enable various kinds of overeach to continue.
(https://s3.documentcloud.org/documents/23867628/preliminary-injunction-against-biden-admin-re-social-media.pdf)
PRELIMINARY INJUNCTION
This judge issued the injunction on the 4th of July. Independence Day.
This judge has made every on of the snakes in the decision stand for depositions. This judge is not playing.
He is saying the AG of Missouri and Louisiana are going to win their lawsuit based on the evidence and merits of their case.
He spelled out exactly how the government has gone full Gestapo in his injunction. He is saying that he has already seen enough evidence of violations of our constitutional rights, that he placed an injunction upon them until final ruling.
Be grateful that we have one judge with a constitutional backbone. He is telling Biden he will not go along with their claims of national security bullshit they are spewing.
Why is a foreign owned rag like Reuters writing about this? Do you not see the game of foreign influence in their so called news reports?
This is flop sweat by criminals in government desperate to cover up their law breaking, that has been thrown out in the sunshine. Make no mistake it is headed to the Supreme Court.
The AG of Louisiana and Missouri have the evidence. You can see that the evidence they do have can and will be used against them. This is legal wrangling trying to tie it up so no one can talk about it. They are just trying to get it out of a Patriot Judges court.
I believe what this judge has done is lay a trap for the government. You might see a 3 judge panel of liberals from the 5th circuit grant what the government wants, but it will go to the full 5th circuit after that. This about to get ugly for Biden Administration and they know it.
Sidenote.
What happens to a government official when they violate their oath and violate the constitution?
They lose immunity. Then you can sue them personally. This is the reason for the panic!
Do you see how the Democrat Communist Party NEVER stops fighting and using the law as a club to beat the American People into submission? Where is the Republican Treasonous Traitor Party? Why can
t they fight and use the law rightfully so, to beat the Democrat Communist Party into a bloody pulp? The law and the Constitution are on OUR side, NOT the Democrat Communist Party
s side. We need NEW leadership, and we need it NOW.Here’s what I hear…
We don’t care about the first ammedment, we want to track your every on line move and remove you if we see fit.
I’m old enough to remember when government censorship was a right-wing conspiracy theory…
“The State” cannot abide a free and independent press and remain in absolute unmitigated power; the Founders knew this and consequently embedded this freedom in the Bill of Rights. “The State” will fight this tooth and nail like a cornered animal. Given how modern media has developed into the power that it is this ruling has vast implications. We shall see whether liberty prevails or is further crushed. Interesting times …
Judge Doughty better hire himself a food taster.
Same question I always have anymore…WHY?