Justice Jackson Doesn't Understand First Amendment

SCOTUS heard oral argument yesterday pertaining to how the Biden Regime bullied social media into censoring content the government did not like. Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson asked the Free Speech attorney in Murthy^ v Missouri questions which revealed her Marxist roots:

“Your view has the First Amendment hamstringing the government, in significant ways, in the most important time periods? What would you have the government do? I heard you say a couple of times that the government can post its own speech; but, in my hypothetical, ‘kids, this is not safe, don’t do it,’ is not going to get it done, and so, I guess, some might say the government has a duty to take steps to protect the citizens of this country and you seem to be suggesting that that duty cannot manifest itself in the government encouraging or even pressuring platforms to take down harmful information. So, can you help me? I am really worried about that because you got the First Amendment operating in an environment of threatening circumstances from the government’s perspective, you are saying the government can’t interact with the source of those problems.”

“HAMSTRINGING THE GOVERNMENT?”

Yes, Justice Jackson. The whole point of the Freedom of Speech clause in the First Amendment is to “hamstring” the government from controlling citizens’ free speech. Yep! That’s the reason for the First Amendment!

MISSOURI & LOUISIANA AGs ARGUED FOR FREE SPEECH

The Supreme Court heard oral argument yesterday in Murthy v. Missouri. This is the case which concerns federal government officials’ coercion of social media companies to censor speech on their platforms. Missouri and Louisiana, along with five individuals, filed suit arguing the federal government violated their First Amendment speech rights by coercing social media companies to censor posts related to the COVID-19 plandemic and the 2020 elections. The justices have through the end of June to issue their ruling.

The justices will decide whether the Biden Regime and officials in the Trump Administration violated the First Amendment by contacting social media companies about alleged misinformation. This lawsuit was filed in 2022 by attorneys general in Missouri and Louisiana. It alleges the federal government colluded with social media companies such as Twitter, now called X, and Facebook to suppress the freedom of speech.

The federal government specifically targeted conservative speech, the attorneys general contend, across a range of topics — from the efficacy of vaccines to the integrity of the 2020 presidential election. 

Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey, who inherited the lawsuit from his predecessor, called the federal government’s actions “the biggest violation of the First Amendment in our nation’s history. We’re fighting to build a wall of separation between tech and state to preserve our First Amendment right to free, fair and open debate,” Bailey said in an emailed statement." 

In a statement last week, Louisiana Attorney General Liz Murrill said the case has uncovered 20,000 pages of documents that reveal an “extensive censorship campaign” by the Biden White House. “George Orwell wrote ‘1984’ as a warning against tyranny,” Murrill said. “He never intended it to be used as a how-to guide by the federal government.”

FEDERAL OFFICIALS COERCED SOCIAL MEDIA

In 2022, U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, a court nominee of President Donald Trump, ruled that officials under both Biden and Trump coerced social media companies to censor content over concerns it would fuel vaccine hesitancy during the COVID-19 pandemic or upend elections.

The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans prohibited the White House, the Surgeon General’s Office, the FBI, and the CDC from having any contact with the social media companies. It found that the Biden Regime most likely overstepped the First Amendment by coercing the major social media platforms to remove content they did not like.

^Vivek Murthy is Biden’s Surgeon General, under whose direction some of the threats were made toward social media platforms such as Twitter and Facebook.