Donald Trump got some bad news.
Despite Trump’s growing lead in the polls, Joe Biden discovered an ace in the hole.
And that’s because the Supreme Court handed Joe Biden this secret weapon to help him beat Trump.
Amy Coney Barrett betrayed the conservative movement by authoring the opinion in Murthy v. Missouri and dismissing the challenges to the Biden administration’s censorship regime during the COVID-19 pandemic, claiming the defendants lacked standing.
Barrett falsely claimed there was no pressure campaign by the Biden administration to force Facebook and Twitter to censor conservative critics of lockdowns and vaccine mandates.
Barrett also claimed the defendants lacked standing to sue because they didn’t name the Big Tech companies as defendants in their lawsuit.
“The plaintiffs rely on allegations of past Government censorship as evidence that future censorship is likely,” Barrett stated.
“But they fail, by and large, to link their past social-media restrictions to the defendants’ communications with the platforms. Thus, the events of the past do little to help any of the plaintiffs establish standing to seek an injunction to prevent future harms,” Barrett continued.
Barrett and the other five justices who made up the majority – Brett Kavanaugh and John Roberts shamefully joined the liberals in allowing the Biden administration to pressure tech companies to censor political opposition – ignored obvious examples of the administration twisting the screws on social media companies to squelch dissent.
The lawsuit revealed a March 2021 email from White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty to Facebook demanding the site censor “borderline content.”
“We are gravely concerned that your service is one of the top drivers of vaccine hesitancy – period,” Flaherty insisted.
Justice Samuel Alito authored a dissent signed by Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
Alito wrote that “this is one of the most important free speech cases to reach this court in years.”
“For months,” Justice Alito exclaimed, “high-ranking government officials placed unrelenting pressure on Facebook to suppress Americans’ free speech. Because the court unjustifiably refuses to address this serious threat to the First Amendment, I respectfully dissent.”
Alito warned that Barrett and the other Justices’ opinion “permits the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what the people say, hear, and think.”
“It was blatantly unconstitutional, and the country may come to regret the Court’s failure to say so,” Alito declared.
This case is now a free pass for the Biden administration to censor the internet ahead of the 2024 election.
Both Biden and Big Tech platforms know there is no judicial or – since Congress is divided – legislative check on government mandates censorship of Joe Biden’s political opposition.
The Biden campaign is already complaining that any video showing Biden in a cognitive episode is a “cheap fake” with corporate media outlets labeling unedited video footage of Joe Biden’s feebleness as “misleading.”
And now social media is now free to ban accounts who share these videos or censor the footage entirely.
That could lead to a replay of the Hunter Biden laptop story fiasco where Facebook and Twitter hid negative stories about Joe Biden’s corruption from the public – a decision which arguably handed Biden the White House in 2020.
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