by trevor.schakohl@ncla.legal | Sep 26, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The Supreme Court will decide as early as Wednesday whether to stay the lower courts’ injunction against the administration’s social-media censorship in Missouri v. Biden. One of the solicitor general’s arguments in the government’s defense is that the well-documented...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jul 5, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
This July Fourth there was special reason to celebrate. Judge Terry Doughty issued a preliminary injunction in Missouri v. Biden, which stands to become one of the most important free-speech cases in the nation’s history. At stake is the federal government’s use of...
by judy.pino@ncla.legal | Jun 9, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
The organization I lead, the New Civil Liberties Alliance, represents plaintiffs in Missouri v. Biden, a lawsuit challenging the federal government’s campaign to censor speech on social media. For years, officials at the White House, the Federal Bureau of...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Feb 16, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
In 2015, Nohemi Gonzalez—a 23-year-old American studying in Paris—was gunned down by Islamic State (ISIS) terrorists while dining at La Belle Equipe bistro. The U.S. Supreme Court will consider these wrenching facts of Gonzales v. Google on Feb. 21. Bound up with...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Dec 13, 2022 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
Amid growing revelations about government involvement in social-media censorship, it’s no longer enough to talk simply about tech censorship. The problem should be understood as gov-tech censorship. The Biden White House has threatened tech companies and federal...
by helen.taylor@ncla.legal | Jan 5, 2023 | Opinion, Philip Hamburger
On the second anniversary of the invasion of the Capitol on Jan. 6, 2021, it’s worth considering how politics—and especially presidential elections—have increasingly become like warfare. A pair of developments—one legislative, one administrative—have raised the...
