There is a case that has been winding its way through the courts. It is Missouri, Louisiana, etc. vs Biden, et al. It is a First Amendment case where the states have claimed that the Biden administration totally violated the first amendment, by forcing and coercing social media and other organizations to ban speech, block opinion and censor information they determined was against their interests. In other words, the government was using private companies and enterprises to do what they are categorically prohibited from doing.
As the case has been going forward, the plaintiffs had requested injunctive relief in the form of enjoining the defendants from continuing their blatantly unconstitutional activities. The district court agreed. The injunction was appealed to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. They have now endorsed the district court decision.
The panel decision reads:
Defendants, and their employees and agents, shall take no actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress, or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech. That includes, but is not limited to, compelling the platforms to act, such as by intimating that some form of punishment will follow a failure to comply with any request, or supervising, directing, or otherwise meaningfully controlling the social-media companies’ decision-making processes.
At the federal government’s request, the Fifth Circuit stayed the order for 10 days to give the government time to petition for a writ of certiorari from the U.S. Supreme Court. Almost like bait, the Fifth Circuit is seemingly hoping the insufferable & ideological Lawfare operatives in the DOJ will take this decision higher.
I hope they go to the Supreme Court. The White House and other agencies are documented to be running a fascist information suppression operation. SCOTUS would destroy the Biden administration on this constitutional issue. The evidence of what took place is overwhelming in support of the original court order against Biden, and the subsequent affirmation from the fifth circuit. And keep in mind that this case is just in the discovery phase.