TBA Law Blog


Posted by: Paul Burch on Oct 23, 2023

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday granted the Biden administration's request to put on hold a preliminary injunction constraining how White House and other federal officials communicate with social media platforms to remove content believed to be misinformation. Reuters reports that the justices also agreed to decide the merits of the administration's appeal of the lower court ruling. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch publicly dissented from the decision. The attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and a group of social media users sued federal officials, accusing them of unlawfully helping to suppress conservative-leaning speech on major social medial platforms. Lower courts found that administration officials likely coerced the companies into censoring certain posts in violation of the constitution's free speech protections.