NCLA Asks U.S. Supreme Court Not to Stay Injunction Against Government Social Media Censorship
Surgeon General’s office from pressuring social media platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech.
- Surgeon General’s office from pressuring social media platforms to censor constitutionally protected speech.
- On September 8, a Fifth Circuit panel upheld the most significant components of U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty’s preliminary injunction prohibiting the aforementioned officials from pressuring, coercing, or significantly encouraging social media companies to suppress constitutionally protected speech.
- The government has failed to present a single convincing argument for staying the injunction any further.
- The Supreme Court is unlikely to reverse the Fifth Circuit’s injunction against such abridgment of the First Amendment.