A Trump-appointed federal judge, Terry Doughty, has granted a pair of Republican Attorney Generals a big victory in a case they filed against the Biden Administration.
Doughty ruled yesterday that the Biden administration has 21 days to turn over all relevant emails sent by White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and Anthony Fauci to social media platforms regarding alleged misinformation and the censorship of social media content.
The decision came as part of a lawsuit filed in May by Missouri’s AG Eric Schmitt and Louisiana’s AG Jeff Landry.
The lawsuit accuses the Biden administration of suppressing the constitutionally protected right to free speech on elections, the COVID-19 lab leak theory, coronavirus-related lockdowns, and other issues.
The ruling came despite the Justice Department’s objections to the handing over of the email correspondence under executive privilege and presidential communications privilege.
“This Court believes Plaintiffs are entitled to external communications by Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms,” Doughty said in the ruling.
Schmitt and Landry argued in their initial filing that “having threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials in the Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called ‘disinformation,’ ‘misinformation,’ and ‘malinformation’.”
“As a result of these actions, there has been an unprecedented rise of censorship and suppression of free speech – including core political speech – on social media platforms.”
“Not just fringe views, but perfectly legitimate, responsible viewpoints and speakers have been unlawfully and unconstitutionally threatened in the modern public square.”
Schmitt celebrated the ruling in a two-part tweet where he also quote-tweeted a tweet that explained the lawsuit.
For a refresher on how we got here and documents that already show a vast censorship enterprise between the Biden Administration and Big tech — check out this thread.👇 More to come… https://t.co/FrrELZRxIh
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 6, 2022
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