Posted on 03/18/2024 1:00:02 PM PDT by bitt
This morning the Supreme Court held oral argument in the case that is now styled Murthy v. Missouri. C-SPAN has posted audio of the oral argument here.
The case arises from the government’s “encouragement” of censorship by the social media platforms, as documented in the Twitter Files. We have followed the case as it has wended its way through the district court to the Fifth Circuit and then to the Supreme Court. We (I) have been pulling for the plaintiffs.
The Supreme Court has already entered an order staying the narrowed preliminary injunction that had been fashioned by the Fifth Circuit while the case is pending before the Court. Justices Alito dissented from the stay. In his dissent he was joined by Justices Thomas and Gorsuch. I thought the Supreme Court stay was a bad sign of the likely outcome of the case.
In the event this morning, the plaintiff/respondents complaining of the government’s encouragement of censorship on social media platforms suffered a bloodbath, if I may use that word in its colloquial sense. If I am not allowed to use that word in its colloquial sense, I would say that the plaintiff/respondents had a bad day in Court.
I listened to the oral argument in order to assess the likely outcome of this interlocutory appeal. I think it is likely that the preliminary injunction stayed by the Supreme Court will be vacated and that the Fifth Circuit decision will be reversed. I am rashly reading the omens of the give-and-take in the argument like a Roman soothsayer examining entrails.
(Excerpt) Read more at powerlineblog.com ...
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elizabeth_B%C3%A1thory
“Doesn’t this constitutional illiterate even understand that the very purpose of the U.S. Constitution IS to hamstring the federal government?”
Oh, she understands that perfectly well.
nothing intelligible, as usual.
This Jackson court jester must be related to the BRAINIAC CONgresscritter called Shiela Jackson.
“if allowed to happen free speech will be dead”
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The Left has already taken a wrecking ball to everything that made this country great so it wouldn’t be surprising to see free speech die along with everything else.
“Doesn’t this constitutional illiterate even understand that the very purpose of the U.S. Constitution IS to hamstring the federal government?”
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Their goal is to dismantle every obstacle to total control and one party rule.
Thank you for the explanation.
Too bad you won’t make any money off of it. Unlike the blogger that wrote the article “explaining” the court’s activities.
“government’s “encouragement” of censorship by the social media platforms”
Doesn’t sound like freedom of the press.
How Orwellian!
Would have been nice if the author told us why it was a bloodbath as opposed simply giving his conclusion.
Social media is the modern version of the printing press.
Hopefully a majority of the Court see’s it that way.
A real Bloodbath would be if NYC and Chicago started to give free fried chicken to migrants.
Good question. The appellate court upheld the circuit court's decision. By the way, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals is a conservative court -- as is most fifth court district courts.
The Supreme Court does not necessarily have to rule totally in favor of our side by simply vacating the stay. There are a host of other decisions they could make -- some more favorable to us than others.
I have followed this case for a while. Another commenter posted that this could be as big a Roe v Wade or Brown v Board of Education. I agree 100%!
You ask that, with THAT screen name? 🤣🤣 Just kidding ... but I actually had someone MEOW at me during a disagreement on decorum, I had to go back and check to see if it was you 😆👍
From some of the articles I have read, he is par for the course for “writers” these days.
How could that news possibly help you now?
Watch This (12 min.) ! ! ! !
Mary Holland And Mike Davis Detail The Censorship Case In The Supreme Court
Jackson might win the award for Least Competent Justice ever. A mental midget who just happened to check the correct woke boxes.
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