Conservatives on the U.S. Supreme Court clashed over Wednesday's ruling in favor of President Biden's administration. The Court ruled 6-3 that the plaintiffs, a group of conservative states and social media users, had no standing to sue the federal government over its attempts to influence the censorship policies of social media giants. Justice Amy Coney Barrett authored the opinion of the court, but Justices Samuel Alito, Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas dissented.
Alito blasted the majority opinion in his written dissent, which Thomas and Gorsuch joined. He said the Court's opinion 'unjustifiably refuses' to intervene on behalf of the 'victims' of COVID-era censorship.
assume that a fair portion of what social media users had to say about COVID–19 and the pandemic was of little lasting value. Some was undoubtedly untrue or misleading, and some may have been downright dangerous. But we now know that valuable speech was also suppressed. That is what inevitably happens when entry to the marketplace of ideas is restricted,' he continued.
These victims simply wanted to speak out on a question of the utmost public importance,' he added. Wednesday's ruling overturns a lower court ruling that sided with the plaintiffs and imposed an injunction against White House officials meeting with major tech companies. That injunction is now lifted. The injunction had applied to several federal officials and agencies – including some of Biden's Cabinet members and White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre.
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