Biden has been caught red-handed trashing the Constitution
Federal District Court Judge Terry Doughty knows what Biden is up to by
trying to use censorship to muzzle his critics
Betsy McCaughey By Betsy McCaughey | Creators Syndicate

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President Joe Biden has played his cards: all bluff, no aces.

Biden is the defendant in a lawsuit accused of what Federal District
Court Judge Terry Doughty calls "the most massive attack against free
speech in United States history." Yet the appeal Biden filed on Monday
is devoid of even one winning argument in his own defense.

Count on it to go nowhere. Biden's been caught red-handed violating the
U.S. Constitution.

On July 4, Judge Doughty announced that the evidence produced so far
indicates the president is operating a vast, illegal censorship scheme
to muzzle his critics.

BIDEN LIKELY VIOLATED FIRST AMENDMENT DURING COVID-19 PANDEMIC, FEDERAL
JUDGE SAYS

Doughty knows tyranny when he sees it. He's got the goods on the Biden
administration, and he laid out his evidence in 155 pages, all
meticulously footnoted.

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FILE – U.S. President Joe Biden delivers remarks at the Homeland
Security Departments 20th Anniversary ceremony at the Homeland Security
Department in Washington, U.S., March 1, 2023. (REUTERS/Leah Millis)

Biden, numerous White House staff and employees of 11 federal agencies
are being sued for operating a whole-of-government censorship operation
to prevent you -- the public -- from seeing social media posts that
challenge Biden policies on a wide range of issues from vaccines to
climate change, inflation and more. Not to mention any posts that mock
Biden family members. Straight out of Kim Jong Un's playbook.

The Constitution bars the government from censoring, so Biden is
coercing social media to do the dirty work for him.

Doughty cited ample evidence -- emails, meeting notes, sworn testimony
and correspondence -- showing the Biden administration strong-arms media
platforms into serving as government censors. The Constitution bars the
government from censoring, so Biden is coercing social media to do the
dirty work for him. That, reasons Doughty, is just as unconstitutional.

THESE ARE THE OFFICIALS BLOCKED FROM MEETING WITH SOCIAL MEDIA COMPANIES
IN DRAMATIC FIRST AMENDMENT RULING

To halt this assault on freedom as an election nears, Doughty issued an
order on July 4 barring Biden himself and dozens of White House staff
and federal agency employees from any further communications with
executives at Facebook/Meta, Twitter, YouTube/Google, WhatsApp,
Instagram and other platforms "for the purpose of encouraging,
pressuring, or inducing in any manner the removal, deletion,
suppression, or reduction of content."

President Biden in Oval Office
President Biden listens to reporters during his bilateral meeting with
Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez. (Chris Kleponis/CNP/Bloomberg via
Getty Images)

It's damage control for the nation.

Biden's lawyers appealed Doughty's order, predicting "grave harm to the
American people and our democratic processes" if the order goes into
effect, but no specifics.

BIDEN ADMIN APPEALS JUDGE'S ORDER LIMITING ITS CONTACT WITH SOCIAL MEDIA
COMPANIES

Grave harm? Only to Biden's reelection dreams. In a free society, all
politicians have to put up with criticism.

This is a massive win for free speech and devastating loss for
censorship: Sen. SchmittVideo
The White House denies coercing social media executives, insisting they
make "independent choices."That's risible. Doughty documents the demands
made to social media and the coercive language that White House staff
and other federal employees used. Biden officials met with tech
executives regularly and flagged content they wanted removed.

Doughty cites numerous times administration spokespeople warned that the
Biden administration would consider altering Section 230 of the
Communications Decency Act, which protects social media platforms from
being held liable for what they post or refuse to post. That threat is
tantamount to holding a gun to their heads.

The purpose of the First Amendment, explained Doughty, is to "preserve
an uninhibited marketplace of ideas."

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Tragically, liberal media are no longer champions of a marketplace of
ideas. The New York Times blasts Doughty and warns the lawsuit could
"alter how government battles disinformation, dangerous falsehoods and
harmful content online."

Tell the gray lady that's not government's job.

New York Times Building
The New York Times Building in midtown Manhattan. (Fox News
Photo/Joshua Comins)

The Washington Post cautions that "after companies and the federal
government spent years expanding efforts to combat online falsehoods,"
this lawsuit might end that cooperation.

Collusion is more like it. Government shouldn't be curating what
Americans can say or hear. The First Amendment protects all speech, good
and bad, true and false.

Left-wing media are characterizing Doughty as a "Trump-appointed judge"
to discredit him. Truth is, Doughty was confirmed by the Senate 98-0 and
has become a formidable defender of the Constitution's limits on
government. He halted Biden's mandate that all health care workers be
vaccinated, and a similar mandate requiring Head Start workers be
vaccinated, not because he opposed vaccines but because both mandates
exceeded the federal government's authority.

Biden admin push back on censorship ruling ‘evidences’ that they are
committed to future free speech ‘violations’: AG Andrew BaileyVideo
Doughty has a strong case again.

He warns that the U.S. government "seems to have assumed a role similar
to an Orwellian 'Ministry of Truth.'"

That's a grave danger, but it won't happen on this judge's watch.

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"If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation,"
Doughty writes, quoting an 80-year-old precedent, "it is that no
official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in
politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion."

Listen up, Mr. President.

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Betsy McCaughey is a former lieutenant governor of New York and chairman
of the Committee to Reduce Infection Deaths. Follow her on Twitter
@Betsy_McCaughey.

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davidcjones45622
3 hours ago

Given previous Biden-Harris behavior it seems quite likely they will
simply ignore the judge's instructions and communicate their
instructions to media through other than official channels with the
weight of Federal opprobrium for disobedience still in force.

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twotickets
2 hours ago

Agreed, but it appears that the media is starting to turn on him. It's
an indicator that Joe ultimately won't run. Let's hope so!

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bigly
2 hours ago

When reached for comment, Biden said: "I do what I want and you cannot
stop me" - Joe Biden

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