Two prominent Republican Attorneys General, Eric Schmitt of Missouri and Jeffrey M. Landry of Louisiana have filed a lawsuit against the Biden-Harris regime in the person of President Joe Biden alongside 46 others for colluding with big-tech companies to censor COVID-19-related speech.
“The freedom of speech in the United States now faces one of its greatest assaults by federal government officials in the Nation’s history,” stated the complaint filed by Schmitt and Landry, according to Timcast News.
“Missouri and Louisiana filed a landmark lawsuit, seeking to expose that the federal government has worked hand-in-hand with social media companies to censor freedom of speech on their platforms. Our lawsuit has done exactly that – we’ve found a staggering ‘censorship enterprise’ that extends to a multitude of federal agencies and implicates government officials at the highest levels of government, but we’re not done yet,” Attorney General Schmitt said in a statement.
A recent filing from the Attorneys General amended the original complaint and added additional defendants such as the U.S. Centers for Disease Control & Prevention (CDC), the FBI, and the White House. The total number of defendants is up to 67.
“Now, we’ve added 47 additional defendants to our lawsuit, including several FBI agents and more top-ranking White House officials. We’re also asking the Court to allow our offices to take depositions to question these officials under oath. We’re only just getting started.”
State officials have argued that the government under Biden has cracked down on speech safeguarded by the First Amendment of the Constitution by pushing social network giants to censor the speech they don’t approve of.
Then-White House Press Secretary Jen Psaki disclosed in June 2021 that the administration was “flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation,” indicating that the social media giant would de-rank or otherwise take action against the flagged accounts.
.@PressSec: “We’re flagging problematic posts for Facebook that spread disinformation.” pic.twitter.com/xTCvg3tyFQ
— Daily Caller (@DailyCaller) July 15, 2021
Psaki also said they were urging Facebook to boost content the administration preferred as “factual.”
The complaint stated: “The government cannot accomplish through threats of adverse government action what the Constitution prohibits it from doing directly.”
Schmitt and Landry argued that the Biden regime has employed “express and implied threats” to censor viewpoints under the premise of halting so-called “disinformation,” “misinformation,” and “malformation.”
“Throughout this case, we have uncovered a disturbing amount of collusion between Big Tech and Big Government,” added Attorney General Landry.
He added, “This egregious attack on our First Amendment will be met with an equally full-hearted defense of the rights of the American people.”
The Attorneys General were joined as plaintiffs by Jim Hoft of The Gateway Pundit, Dr. Jayanta Bhattacharya, Jill Hines, Dr. Aaron Kheriarty and Dr. Martin Kulldorff.
