Federal Agencies Can Start Censoring Again: A 3 judge panel in New Orleans issued a 'stay' today on Judge Doughty's order pending an appeals panel rule on the merits
Epoch Times.
Hard to stomach, this—Nass
A federal appeals court has handed the Biden administration a temporary victory by agreeing to put a temporary hold on an earlier district court’s ruling that prohibited a range of federal agencies and their staff from contacting social media companies with requests to censor constitutionally protected free speech.
On Friday, a three-judge panel for the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans issued a decision granting the Biden administration’s request to put the censorship-by-proxy ban on hold.
The “temporary administrative stay” will be in place until the case is referred to a different appeals panel, which will deliberate on the merits of a ruling that barred Biden administration officials from pressuring social media companies to censor free speech.
The DOJ told The Epoch Times in an emailed statement that it was not providing any comment on Friday’s decision.
Friday’s decision is the latest chapter in a saga that was sparked by a censorship-by-proxy lawsuit brought by Louisiana and Missouri against Biden administration agencies and top officials after evidence emerged that various federal agencies and some of their senior staff pressured social media companies to censor Americans’ free speech.
You can bet the 'different appeals panel' has been threatened, bribed, coerced or something similar to hold them accountable to the Biden Admin. This is a dark chapter (I hope it's only a chapter) of US politics. Judge Terry Doughty has made a thorough and prudent judgment with the evidence before him. Scary to think our Constitution and our civil rights are in the hands of these all but proven criminals.
Everyone knows that this goes to SCOTUS where The Big Guy gets his rear pockets handed to him at which point he will announce a workaround.
Here is the ONLY solution. Never, ever vote for a democrat for ANY office ever again.