A hugely important case about government censorship of Americans' speech online is going to the Supreme Court.
Louisiana Solicitor General Liz Murrill said the Supreme Court decision to take the case "Grants us an opportunity to affirm once and for all that the government is not permitted to use the government-speech doctrine to muffle the expression of disfavored viewpoints."
Justice Samuel Alito, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch, wrote that the Supreme Court's decision to halt the injunction "Will be seen by some as giving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news."
Alito specifically warned the decision could lead to censorship, writing, "Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government, and therefore, today's decision is highly disturbing."
BREAKING: The United States Supreme Court has granted cert in Missouri v. Biden - the nation's highest court will hear one of the most important free speech cases in a generation.
"[T]he evidence produced thus far depicts an almost dystopian scenario," wrote U.S. District Court Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana in a decision released July 4 that included an injunction preventing a bevy of high-ranking government officials from pushing censorship.
In September, the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed who was affected by the injunction, but in an unsigned opinion, noted that plaintiffs had shown "Extensive evidence that social-media platforms have engaged in censorship of certain viewpoints on key issues and that the government has engaged in a years-long pressure campaign designed to ensure that the censorship aligned with the government's preferred viewpoints."
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