The justices blocked an order preventing the White House from contacting social media companies about allegedly misleading posts involving Covid-19 and the 2020 election.
Biden administration officials can keep contacting social media companies for now while the Supreme Court weighs the case. | Evan Vucci/APThe Supreme Court will determine whether the Biden administration violated the Constitution when it pressured tech companies to remove from their platforms what federal officials said was false or misleading content about the 2020 election and Covid-19.
Three conservative justices — Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch — dissented from the decision to block the injunction, joining in a five-page opinion by Alito that called the court’s action “highly disturbing” and said it threatened to curtail the discussion of unpopular political views online.
Louisiana’s Solicitor General Liz Murrill said the Supreme Court action allows the state AGs to “affirm once and for all that the government is not permitted to use the government-speech doctrine to muffle the expression of disfavored viewpoints.” Louisiana’s Attorney General Jeff Landry was just elected governor, and will take office in January.
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