5th circuit rules against Biden administration for social media contact : NPR

The Fifth Circuit was the heroic court which more than any other - saving the Supreme Court - pressed the states of the former confederacy to abide by the Supreme Court's order in Brown v. Board of Education to integrate public schools.  But the Circuit was divided by Congress in 1981, losing  much of its territory.  In the following dozen years of Republican presidents it came to be dominated by conservatives. 

In the aftermath of the covid 19 pandemic  a panel of the firmly conservative Circuit has clamped down on the effort of the Centers for Disease Control to counter the widespread use of social media to undermine the government's efforts to fight the virus via effective vaccines.

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5th circuit rules against Biden administration for social media contact : NPR

The U.S. Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in State of Missouri v. Biden has upheld an injunction restricting how the government can communicate with social media companies, which the Biden administration warns will stymie efforts to counter false and misleading claims about elections, public health and other important topics.

The panel of judges, all GOP nominees, say that the administration's efforts to flag what it considered to be false and harmful content about COVID, the 2020 election and other topics that violated the social media companies' policies likely amount to a violation of the First Amendment. The court found that Biden Administration officials coerced and threatened the social media companies to take down content.

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