We look forward to dismantling Joe Biden's vast censorship enterprise at the nation's highest court," Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey said in a statement Friday.Ī spokesman for the Department of Justice in Washington declined to comment. "This is the worst First Amendment violation in our nation's history. They claim that the government’s actions violated free speech protections under the Constitution’s First Amendment. The individual plaintiffs include Covid-19 lockdown opponents and Jim Hoft, the owner of the right-wing website Gateway Pundit. government officials went too far in what they characterize as coercion of social media companies to address posts, especially those related to Covid-19. GOP attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, along with five social media users, filed the underlying lawsuit, alleging that U.S. That is most unfortunate," Alito wrote in a dissenting opinion. "At this time in the history of our country, what the court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news. Three conservative justices noted that they would have denied the application: Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
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