U.S. Government Says Inability to Censor You Causes It ‘Irreparable Harm’
Commentary
The U.S. government betrayed its total and utter contempt for the First Amendment in a recent filing (pdf) 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 (pdf) 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….