STORY AT-A-GLANCE
In May 2022, the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana, Eric Schmitt and Jeff Landry, along with the New Civil Liberties Alliance and a few individual plaintiffs, filed a lawsuit against Biden, arguing the White House is engaged in illegal suppression of protected speech
Discovery documents show at least 67 federal employees across more than a dozen agencies have been engaged in illegal censorship activities
In early July 2023, Judge Terry Doughty granted the plaintiffs’ injunction, prohibiting federal agencies and Biden administration officials from working with social media companies to limit protected speech
September 8, 2023, the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld part of the lower court’s injunction, banning the White House, surgeon general, CDC and FBI from influencing social media companies to remove “disinformation.” This is a major win, but amendments to the injunction may leave loopholes
Most disturbingly, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is excluded from the appellate court’s injunction. CISA appears to have played a major role in the government’s censorship of Americans, so by excluding CISA, government censorship may continue via third party partners

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