(DailyAnswer.org) – A federal judge just gave independent presidential candidate Robert F Kennedy Jr the greenlight to file a lawsuit against the Biden administration for violating Kennedy’s free speech by allegedly censoring his charity organization for questioning the safety and efficacy of vaccinations.
The US District Judge Terry Doughty ruled in a Louisiana court on Tuesday, Aug. 20, that Kennedy was “likely to succeed on his claim.” That claim was that the government suppressed Kennedy’s content online and that there was a “substantial risk” of it happening again to him “in the near future.”
Kennedy’s lawsuit claims major social media platforms caved to pressure from the federal government to censor him and others by arbitrarily labeling certain content as misinformation. Those platforms specifically censored Kannedy’s charity organization, Children’s Health Defense (CHD), which was founded to end “health epidemics” among children by “eliminating toxic exposure.” After the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention labeled the vaccines developed in response to the 2020 pandemic as “safe and effective,” the government actively censored the charity and other organizations and users who questioned the shot’s efficacy and safety.
Kim Rosenberg, the general counsel for CHD, said after the decision that the judge “carefully and clearly analyzed the law and facts” surrounding their case and “applied the framework” from a previous US Supreme Court decision “regarding standing,” which was the case of Murthy v. Missouri. GOP attorneys general of Louisiana and Missouri brought the case against the Biden administration for the same reason as Kennedy, arguing that the Biden administration deliberately pressured social media platforms to remove content deemed misinformation in violation of freedom of speech.
The Louisiana court temporarily banned communication between these companies and the government, but a decision in June determined the plaintiffs lacked sufficient evidence proving direct injury and a direct link to government involvement in the censorship by social media companies, which have the right to moderate content on their platforms. In that decision, Supreme Court Justice Amy Coney Barett said that the evidence showed social media platforms “exercised their own judgment” and had their own “incentives to moderate content” during that time.
Doughty ruled that Kennedy’s case, on the other hand, did have direct evidence linking the government to actions leading to the censorship of his charity. The ruling sends the case back down to a lower court for the injunction to be reviewed.
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