Feds Argue First Amendment Causes ‘Irreparable Harm’ in Bid to Save Censorship Regime
The U.S. government betrayed its total and utter contempt for the First Amendment in a recent filing in the landmark Missouri v. Biden free speech case.
The filing a motion responding to U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty s bombshell Independence Day injunction freezing federal government-led speech policing calls for the judge to permit the federal government to continue its censorship activities while it fights the injunction.
While Judge Doughty has now smacked the federal government down, ruling against its motion for a stay, the feds perverse position merits scrutiny, especially given it s likely to persist in it for as long as this case is litigated, and as high as it will reach, perhaps up to the Supreme Court.
The crux of the government s argument for staying the injunction was this: Prohibiting federal authorities from abridging speech, directly and by proxy, could lead to grave harm to the American people and our democratic processes, thereby causing the government irreparable harm.
Another way to read the government s argument is that if it can t interfere in elections or engage in rampant viewpoint discrimination, that causes it irreparable harm.
Still another way to read the government s argument is that your right to free speech causes it irreparable harm.