Posted on 06/01/2022 6:46:34 AM PDT by TexasGurl24
The Supreme Court on Tuesday sided with the technology industry and blocked a controversial Texas law that bars large social media platforms like Facebook and Twitter from removing posts based on the viewpoints they express.
The justices divided 5-4 in an ideologically scrambled vote. Three of the court’s conservatives (Chief Justice John Roberts and Justices Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett) joined two liberals (Justices Stephen Breyer and Sonia Sotomayor) in putting the law on hold while lower courts continue to assess technology companies’ constitutional challenge to the law. The other three conservatives (Justices Clarence Thomas, Samuel Alito, and Neil Gorsuch) and one liberal justice (Elena Kagan) dissented.
The majority did not explain the reasoning behind its brief order. Alito wrote a six-page dissent arguing that the court’s intervention to block the law is premature. Thomas and Gorsuch joined that dissent. Kagan did not join Alito’s opinion, but she separately indicated that she, too, would have allowed the law to take effect. She did not elaborate on her thinking.
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We’ve known Roberts isn’t a conservative—or a Constitutionalist—for some time.
Sad to see Barret and Kavanaugh taking the same stance.
Bunch of morons. Do they hate Elon Musk?
Given that Twitter admitted to shafting investors for their own ideology, it proves these outfits are not private but states within a state needing to be treated as telcoms
Now how many people will actually read the article to see this is a ruling on the appellate process and not a decision as to the actual law?
It’s a temporary block. People need to undertand that judges often accept, don’t accept, block cases because of other pending cases in the pipeline that they think will be more proper judicial forums. This may still come back to the USSC, but needs to go through other courts first. The Supes don’t just accept everything.
Indeed. It will be knee jerk after knee jerk reaction.
I know. But that won’t stop people from declaring Kagan to be a “conservative” now or from branding Barrett and Kavanaugh as “liberals.”
“Now how many people will actually read the article to see this is a ruling on the appellate process and not a decision as to the actual law?”
Stop making sense!! Here at FR we just start foaming at the mouth and ranting about ‘RINOs’ every chance we get. It’s a lot more fun than taking the time to actually read an article!
Look at the post right below those comments of yours.
This was entirely a process ruling that could have gone either way - Kagan is no conservative.
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