The Supreme Court has sided with the corrupt Joe Biden administration in a social media case brought by the state of Missouri. But it doesn’t appear that the case was actually won on the merits, but because the litigants didn’t have standing.
According to SCOTUSblog’s Amy Howe: “This is the case about social media “jawboning” — the government’s communications with social media companies during the 2020 election season and COVID-19 pandemic. The court holds that the challengers — two states and five social-media users — do not have standing — that is, a legal right to sue.”
Here’s more from ABC News:
The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration’s communication with social media companies about misinformation on their sites about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, stating the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to sue.
The 6-3 opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented.
“The plaintiffs, without any concrete link between their injuries and the defendants’ conduct, ask us to conduct a review of the years-long communications between dozens of federal officials, across different agencies, with different social-media platforms, about different topics,” Barrett wrote. “This Court’s standing doctrine prevents us from ‘exercis[ing such] general legal oversight’ of the other branches of Government.”
This ruling reversed the 5th Circuit’s ruling. Barrett, Kavanaugh, Roberts and the three liberal justices were the 6 who voted for this decision.
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You can read the full ruling below, including the dissents which begin on page 35:
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