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‘Blatantly Unconstitutional’: Justice
Alito Writes Blistering Dissent In Biden
Admin Censorship Case

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Posted By: Harlowe, 6/26/2024 5:39:35 PM

Justice Samuel Alito excoriated the Supreme Court majority for “shirk[ing]” its duty to restrain the government’s coercive censorship efforts in “one of the most important free speech cases” to reach the high court in years. “Their communications with Facebook were virtual demands,” he wrote, [Snip] In his dissent, Alito, who was joined by Justices Neil Gorsuch and Clarence Thomas, argued that the majority’s decision “permits the successful campaign of coercion in this case to stand as an attractive model for future officials who want to control what the people say, hear, and think.”

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Reply 1 - Posted by: thethirdruffian 6/26/2024 5:48:41 PM (No. 1744046)
Just a bit of history, but when Churchill warned of Germany’s rearmament in 1934, he was immediately censored from the BBC and all media at the urging of the government for promoting conspiracy theories deemed harmful to the public good. It took the Nazis ripping across Europe for him to be allowed to again freely speak.
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Reply 2 - Posted by: volksford 6/26/2024 6:07:48 PM (No. 1744049)
This is akin to telling a newspaper what can be printed. A clear violation of first amendment rights and If there is no standing who in hell does have standing ?
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Reply 3 - Posted by: DVC 6/26/2024 7:11:41 PM (No. 1744069)
He's absoloutely correct....but the case was NOT decided on legal, constitutional grounds....it was a 'done wrong penalty' sort of a thing where they decided that the ones suing didn't have "standing", meaning they were apparently not the actual party being harmed.
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Reply 4 - Posted by: winmag 6/26/2024 7:20:26 PM (No. 1744079)
More conservative sell outs. Thanks Barrett and Kavanaugh. Roberts has gone totally to the dark side.
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Reply 5 - Posted by: john56 6/26/2024 9:42:34 PM (No. 1744125)
The left never has problems with "standing". But then, we do have a dual standard of justice.
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Reply 6 - Posted by: davew 6/26/2024 10:03:01 PM (No. 1744137)
The people with standing would have been the staff of the social media companies. If they had published the conservative counter arguments to the COVID narrative and been prosecuted by the government, they would have asserted their first amendment rights. By caving to the government and censoring the material for them, they acted as non-governmental censors which is not constitutionally protected speech. The court got it right. The beef is with woke social media companies that no longer respect the responsibility of a free press.
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Reply 7 - Posted by: danu 6/26/2024 10:52:05 PM (No. 1744165)
rotten roberts
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Reply 8 - Posted by: DVC 6/27/2024 12:01:30 AM (No. 1744178)
Re #4, hogwash. The case WAS NOT decided, it wasn't considered to be brought up in a valid manner.
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Reply 9 - Posted by: 5 handicap 6/27/2024 6:32:16 AM (No. 1744266)
What a disappointment Kavanaugh, Barrett and Roberts are to America! My guess is Soros has made them substantially more affluent. Your thoughts?
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Reply 10 - Posted by: privateer 6/27/2024 6:41:19 AM (No. 1744268)
People on their knees never have standing. I'm starting to wonder if we could have been any worse off with Garland on SCOTUS...instead of as High Commissioner of the Secret Police.
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Reply 11 - Posted by: FJB 6/27/2024 7:05:33 AM (No. 1744274)
Does anyone know where "Rintorim" went?
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Reply 12 - Posted by: planetgeo 6/27/2024 7:17:12 AM (No. 1744280)
Sorry, #6, the court did NOT get it right. In your argument, the parties who have standing supposedly are the staff of the media companies. That's absurd. They're the co-conspirators, NOT the aggrieved/damaged parties (We, the People). EVERY citizen of the United States has standing on this basic right. The federal government and the media who willingly/happily agreed to withhold the truth are in fact criminal co-conspirators. This is one of the worst decisions ever by the Supreme Court. It seriously undermines a bedrock freedom (speech) guaranteed by the Constitution and provides a blueprint to both the government and the media on how they can collude going forward.
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Reply 13 - Posted by: Jethro bo 6/27/2024 7:32:31 AM (No. 1744291)
The Supreme Joke didn't render this decision to 'protect' Diaper Joe and the goobernemnt from censorship. The Supreme Joke knows the States that brought the suit will find one person harmed and 'has standing' and then the Joke can deal with it. The Supreme Joke used this case to shut down any election fraud case brought before the Supreme Joke this coming election cycle. The Supreme Joke knows individuals don't hav the resources to fight election fraud up to the Supreme Joke. But States do. The Supreme Joke has to shut down the States now to prevent any attempt to overturn the election because of fraud and prevent Democrats from taking compete control of the goobernment. Alito is right but for the wrong reason. This is about the long game, not the last election.
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Reply 14 - Posted by: Strike3 6/27/2024 7:43:13 AM (No. 1744298)
The growing conservative population already understands that the media and liberal wimp Zuckerberg already use every arrow in their quivers to lie to and undermine the American people. As usual, the leftist mob is fine with dictatorship, thinking that they are living under "democracy." For now, it's enough to know what is happening and striving to resist the dictators and speak out when the lies are obvious and blatant. This is not the first time that the Supreme Court has failed us by abusing the Constitution and it won't be the last. Fight on!
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Reply 15 - Posted by: Marcus 6/27/2024 11:30:03 AM (No. 1744501)
#11, I've been wondering that too. Rinktum's comments are always insightful and well articulated. I always look forward to reading them and just about always click to like them.
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Reply 16 - Posted by: Deborah Grannet 6/27/2024 4:13:51 PM (No. 1744657)
I know it won't help in the short run, but wondering if there is enough rising competition among social media companies to eventually overtake the government bootlickers so that their power is diminished. Any thoughts?
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