A federal judge has just ordered Democrat President Joe Biden’s White House to hand over emails from top administration officials Dr. Anthony Fauci and Karine Jean-Pierre.
Judge Terry Doughty’s order hands a big win to two Republican attorneys general in their case against the Biden admin.
The AGs are suing the Biden admin over allegations that top White House officials have been coordinating with Big Tech companies to censor Americans online.
Doughty rejected the Biden admin’s arguments and told the White House it has 21 days to turn over emails sent by Press Secretary Karine Jean-Pierre and the director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID) Director Fauci.
The judge ruled in favor of the request for emails that Jean-Pierre and Fauci sent to social media platforms regarding “misinformation” on their platforms.
Missouri AG Eric Schmitt and Louisiana AG Jeff Landry brought the case.
“This Court believes Plaintiffs are entitled to external communications by Jean-Pierre and Dr. Fauci in their capacities as White House Press Secretary and Chief Medical Advisor to the President to third-party social media platforms,” Doughty said in the ruling.
In their initial filing, the AGs argued that “having threatened and cajoled social-media platforms for years to censor viewpoints and speakers disfavored by the Left, senior government officials in the Executive Branch have moved into a phase of open collusion with social-media platforms under the Orwellian guise of halting so-called ‘disinformation,’ ‘misinformation,’ and ‘malinformation’.”
“As a result of these actions, there has been an unprecedented rise of censorship and suppression of free speech – including core political speech – on social media platforms,” the lawsuit said.
“Not just fringe views, but perfectly legitimate, responsible viewpoints and speakers have been unlawfully and unconstitutionally threatened in the modern public square.”
Schmitt said:
“In our lawsuit against the Biden Admin for colluding with social media companies to censor speech, the Court just ordered DOJ to produce records from key WH & HHS officials like Dr. Fauci, the WH Press Secretary, and others.”
🚨BREAKING: In our lawsuit against the Biden Admin for colluding with social media companies to censor speech, the Court just ordered DOJ to produce records from key WH & HHS officials like Dr. Fauci, the WH Press Secretary, and others.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 6, 2022
For a refresher on how we got here and documents that already show a vast censorship enterprise between the Biden Administration and Big tech — check out this thread.👇 More to come… https://t.co/FrrELZRxIh
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 6, 2022
In July of 2022, MO and LA served discovery requests and third-party subpoenas, demanding documents from top-ranking Biden Administration officials and social media companies over their alleged collusion to suppress freedom of speech.
— Eric Schmitt (@Eric_Schmitt) September 1, 2022
A Biden admin official told Fox News:
“As we have said over and over again since the beginning of the administration in our battle against COVID-19, it has been critical for the American people to have access to factual, accurate, science-based information.
“For example, we worked hard to debunk inaccurate or misleading information about the COVID vaccines that have saved millions of lives and encourage Americans to get vaccinated and boosted to stay safe.
“Democrats and Republicans came together to urge the public to get vaccinated, stressing the safety and effectiveness of the vaccines.”
“We believe in and we support freedom of speech, and we also believe it is important for all media platforms, including social media, to represent factual scientific information and combat misinformation and disinformation that can cost lives,” the official said.
