Posted on 07/07/2023 9:59:08 AM PDT by Enlightened1
The U.S. government has filed an emergency stay request to lift a recent injunction issued by a federal judge forbidding the government from violating Americans’ First Amendment rights by colluding with social media companies to censor their constitutionally protected speech.
In the emergency stay, the government contended that the injunction was vague and that the attorney generals could not show harm from the censorship, an argument that Judge Terry Doughty had rejected multiple times in the past.
“Defendants respectfully request that the Court stay its July 4 preliminary injunction pending Defendant’s appeal of that order,” the government argued. “The Government faces irreparable harm with each day the injunction remains in effect, as the injunction’s broad scope and ambiguous terms (including a lack of clarity with respect to what the injunction does not prohibit) may be read to prevent the Government from engaging in a vast range of lawful and responsible conduct—including speaking on matters of public concern and working with social media companies on initiatives to prevent grave harm to the American people and our democratic processes.”
“These immediate and ongoing harms to the Government outweigh any risk of injury to Plaintiffs if a stay is granted, and for the same reason, a stay is in the public interest,” the government added. “Moreover, Defendants have shown a substantial case on the merits regarding Plaintiffs’ lack of Article III standing and failure to present evidence substantiating their First Amendment claims. Accordingly, this Court should exercise its discretion to temporarily stay the preliminary injunction during the pendency of Defendants’ Fifth Circuit appeal.”
The government’s stay request thus clearly lays out that the government views its purported defense of “democracy” as trumping American citizens’ constitutionally protected rights.
The lawsuit, first filed by then Republican Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry in May, claimed White House officials colluded with or coerced Big Tech companies to “suppress disfavored speakers, viewpoints, and content” on their platforms with “dis-information,” “mis-information” and “mal-information” labels.
And the b.s. rolls on, out of OUR White House, occupied by the evil ones.
Democracy is defined as electing Democrats, any other outcome is a threat to democracy.
Hopefully the judge stands his ground.
Governmenting is hard.
Assuming that the stay remains, how long would it be before a verdict is reached and therefore expire the stay?
Would the stay last through the end of the year or even through the primary and general elections?
The government does not face irreparable harm. How the the government get by before social media, if so?
These people all need to permanently silenced.
The government faces irreparable harm? How?
Never in my life did i believe we would be addressing such a turn for the worse in our country.
Freedom of Speech
Hello? The harm is the invaded right of free speech.
The attorneys filing this frivolous claim ought to be sanctioned and jailed until they refile something that isn't utter legal nonsense.
Moreover their duty is not to the gubmint bureaucracy but to the people of the United States.
It’s funny how lawmakers cannot ever find things in government to cut. The idea that government employees have jobs to censor Americans shows the utter waste of tax dollars. Face it the vast majority of lazy ass government employees do absolutely zero to improve our lives. We need to cut government spending until it hurts everyday taxpayers and then cut some more. It’s the only way people will start taking responsibility for their lives.
Blatant Communism. Now they want censoring. Next it will be arresting. After that they won’t bother with either one.
The government is irrelevant. The question is whether the People are suffering irreperable harm. The inability to speak, today, remains forever a loss, not made up for the fact that one might be able to speak in 17 years time when the litigation is finally settled in the SC and consequent action.
“How the the government get by before social media”
Operation Mockingbird had iron control over mass media before the Internet. It still does—probably by other names.
Information warfare against the populace is standard operating procedure of the Deep State.
They put out a narrative—and anyone who opposes it is a “hater” and an “insurrectionist”.
Welcome to “Democracy”....
It would be entertaining to learn their explanation of the irreparable harm, especially if they clarified their definition of “misinformation”.
“ These immediate and ongoing harms to the Government”
Harm to this fascist government is exactly what America needs. Terminal harm.
Followed by a request for an emergency court order to preserve the operations manipulating social media.
This government really thinks we is stoopid. Unfortunately they are by large, correct.
You cannot defeat tyrants in a court of law.
They have to be defeated by force.
To be clear this was filed with the Judge who issued the injunction, not the Court of Appeals for the 5th circuit.
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