Twenty-two states, along with the District of Columbia, are urging the Supreme Court to back the Biden administration’s coordination with Big Tech to censor speech online.
In a brief, the states wrote that the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals made a mistake in finding the federal government’s likely “coerced or significantly encouraged” content moderation in violation of the First Amendment. In blocking the government from engaging in these activities, the states argue, the court “significantly restricted the federal government’s essential role in participating in the marketplace of ideas.”
“This will impoverish, rather than protect, robust debate on matters of vital public importance,” the states argue.
The 22 states are Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota,…
