The Supreme Court on Wednesday found that the state of Missouri did not have standing to challenge the Biden administration’s alleged coercion and efforts to encourage censorship on social media.

The 6-3 majority opinion by Justice Amy Coney Barrett found that the plaintiffs, which included individuals and the state of Missouri, lacked standing to bring the case.

The case first surfaced in 2022 as Missouri v. Biden. It involved the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and five other plaintiffs bringing a lawsuit against the Biden administration over its involvement in social media companies’ censorship practices.

The plaintiffs alleged that the federal government had violated the First Amendment by pressuring social media companies to censor controversial posts, such as those about the COVID-19 lab leak theory or the vaccine, elections, or Hunter Biden’s computer data.

A federal judge in Louisiana ruled against the Biden administration, saying in a lengthy memorandum ruling that the case “depicts an almost dystopian scenario” where the government “seems to have assumed a role similar to an Orwellian ‘Ministry of Truth.’”

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The memorandum noted how officials at agencies such as the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, the Department of Homeland Security, or the FBI would routinely meet with or check in with social media platforms, including Facebook, YouTube, and X, to discuss how they were managing what the government perceived to be misinformation.

The judge issued a preliminary injunction that prohibited some government agencies from communicating with social media companies about content moderation, and the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals partially upheld the ruling.

The Supreme Court then agreed to take up the case last October.

This story is developing.