Tue Jul 18, 2023 – 11:13 am EDT
NEW ORLEANS, Louisiana (LifeSiteNews) — President Joe Biden’s administration can continue working with Big Tech to pressure them to censor speech while a federal case proceeds, the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled recently.
The three-judge panel granted the Biden administration’s request for an administrative stay against an injunction that barred it from colluding with Big Tech companies.
The July 14 ruling also expedited the hearing of the case.
The federal lawsuit, brought by Missouri and Louisiana and right-leaning groups, challenges the Biden administration’s pressure campaign to get Big Tech to censor conservative speech. Plaintiffs include Children’s Health Defense and Jim Hoft, who runs the popular Gateway Pundit website.
The ruling reversed two recent decisions by District Judge Terry A. Doughty that ordered federal officials to cease their pressure campaign. He granted exceptions including “to inform social-media companies of postings involving criminal activity, criminal conspiracies, national security threats,” as well as “extortion, other threats, criminal efforts to suppress voting, providing illegal campaign contributions” and “cyber-attacks against election infrastructure.”
Social media platforms had censored groups that raised questions about the integrity of the 2020 election,
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