This federal case could help end federal policing of public speech

It s not every day that a federal judge asks attorneys representing the president if they ve read their 1984.

Yet Judge Terry A. Doughty did just that last month, invoking the dystopian novel in questioning lawyers for President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other officials about their Orwellian conduct.

These are the defendants in perhaps the most consequential First Amendment case you ve never heard of.

That case, Missouri v. Biden, has exposed arguably the most extensive mass-surveillance and mass-censorship regime in the history of mankind.

In so doing, it has set in motion events that could lead to that regime s collapse.

The plaintiffs, led by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and prominent censorship victims, allege that the feds have engaged in a conspiracy to violate the First Amendment by coercing social-media platforms to censor wrongthink under the guise of combatting mis-, dis- and mal-information.

The targeted speech first concerned skepticism about the integrity and outcome of the 2020 election, expanded to cover all aspects of COVID-19 and now may encompass everything from gendered disinformation to financial events and the Russian-Ukrainian War.

via nypost.com

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