by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Apr 3, 2024 | Blog, Jenin Younes
During the Covid era, state and local governments across the nation flagrantly violated Americans’ constitutional rights for months in some cases and years in others in an ostensible effort to quell the virus’s spread. Yet, with some notable exceptions, the...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Mar 18, 2024 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
Next week, the Supreme Court will confront a government censorship operation that has no analog in American history. The justices are set to hear oral argument in Murthy v. Missouri, a First Amendment challenge to the Biden administration’s pandemic-era censorship...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 11, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
A recent uptick in COVID-19 cases, accompanied by the predictable hysterical media coverage, has spurred nationwide chatter about a possible return to pandemic restrictions, from school closures to mask mandates. This is not baseless supposition, as schools,...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Aug 20, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
In July of 2021, Meta’s head of global affairs, Nick Clegg, emailed a Facebook vice president in charge of content policy, asking why the company had removed from Facebook, rather than demoted or flagged, claims that COVID-19 was “man-made.” Rice responded, “Because...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Jul 28, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Among the revelations in the so-called Twitter files was that government officials pressured social-media companies to censor posts unfavorable to the Biden administration. The White House has denied this, insisting that companies like Meta and Twitter adopted...
by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 27, 2023 | Jenin Younes, Opinion
In June of 2022, the NIH published a study bemoaning Americans’ depleted trust in public health: “Public trust in federal government agencies has never been as important as it has been during the Covid-19 pandemic, yet public suspicions of scientific...
