Twelve Republican Congress members have joined a lawsuit against the Biden administration’s social media censorship scheme.
Members of the House Judiciary Committee and the Select Subcommittee on the Weaponization of the Federal Government filed an amicus brief in the Missouri v. Biden case.
“Each Member signatory is concerned that the Biden Administration has violated the Constitution and abridged Americans’ civil liberties,” the amicus brief reads.
The document continues, “The House Judiciary Committee and the Weaponization Subcommittee have been conducting an ongoing investigation into how and to what extent the executive branch has coerced or colluded with social media companies to censor speech. Very recent evidence, obtained in said investigation in the weeks after the district court’s preliminary injunction ruling, further corroborates the district court’s findings.”
Chair of the Weaponization Subcommittee Rep. Jim Jordan (R-OH) said that their investigation “has uncovered smoking gun documents showing how Big Tech and Big Government worked together to stifle free speech online.”
Jordan said, “We know through the Facebook Files that the Biden Administration directed Big Tech companies to censor speech the government disagreed with, and launched a pressure campaign when companies did not comply with these censorship orders quickly enough.”
Reporting from The Epoch Times:
Republican attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri sued Mr. Biden and several government agencies in May 2022, accusing them of pushing social media companies to censor posts and take down accounts in what their complaint (pdf) alleged was one of the "greatest assaults" on freedom of speech by federal officials in the history of the United States. Later, judge Terry A. Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana sided with the plaintiffs on July 4 when he issued a historic injunction (pdf) that barred government agencies from contacting or working with big tech companies to censor posts on social media. In his decision, Judge Doughty wrote that there was “substantial evidence” of a far-reaching censorship campaign and that this evidence "depicts an almost dystopian scenario."
