https://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2023/07/breaking-independence-day-victory-free-speech-federal-judge/
Monumental Independence Day Verdict! A Trump-appointed federal judge
issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting DHS, FBI, DOJ, and other
agencies from its government-wide, fascist conspiracy with Big Tech to
censor speech and manipulate the public.
Before we delve into the details of this recent development, it’s
crucial to trace our steps back and understand the sequence of events
that led us to this juncture.
The Gateway Pundit previously reported in May that Missouri Attorney General Eric Schmitt, along with Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry, filed a lawsuit (Missouri v. Biden)
against the Biden Administration, including Biden himself, Anthony
Fauci, the Department of Homeland Security, and nearly a dozen federal
agencies and Secretaries.
The suit alleges a massive coordinated effort by the Deep State
(permanent administrative state) to work with Big Tech to censor and
manipulate Americans – from average citizens to news outlets – on issues
including the Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell, 2020 Election Integrity,
COVID-19 origin and extent skepticism, COVID-19 vaccine skepticism,
among other issues.
In June 2022, The Gateway Pundit began assisting Missouri AG
Schmitt’s team and providing critical evidence of Facebook and Twitter
censorship of the Gateway Pundit on all of these issues. (Read more here.)
The case reached a CRUCIAL turning point in July when AG Schmitt and his team won a huge victory. They persuaded the federal judge to grant them limited discovery (investigatory powers) BEFORE the Court. (Read more here.)
This allowed AG Schmitt to compel the GOVERNMENT AND FACEBOOK AND
TWITTER, and a few other social media platforms to turn over documents
and communications exchanged between the government and the social media
platforms, in which censorship was discussed.
In August 2022, we reported that TGP’s Jim Hoft himself
became the lead non-governmental plaintiff in the lawsuit against the
government. (Read more here.)
Since then, AG Schmitt’s team has been engaged in a slug-fest
with the government and Big Tech to turn over the demanded documents.
Neither the government nor Big Tech wants to disclose the
damning evidence against them and they’ve fought like hell to stop the
disclosure.
Since that time, numerous government officials including Dr. Tony Fauci have been deposed and testified in the case.
When former Attorney General Eric Schmitt became a sitting US Senator the new Missouri AG Andrew Bailey took over.
Terry A. Doughty, the chief U.S. district judge in the Western
District of Louisiana, is overseeing the case. The government is
obviously very concerned about this case as it proceeds.
On November 22, 2022, The Government filed a massive MOTION
TO DISMISS (the lawsuit). Subsequently, the Government and States of
Missouri and Louisiana and The Gateway Pundit have been battling, in
multiple lengthy legal briefs, why the federal court should NOT dismiss
our lawsuit.
In support of our efforts to avoid getting knocked out, on MONDAY, March 6, 2023, Missouri
and Louisiana filed a massive summary of the evidence, so far uncovered
in the case, along with a supplemental preliminary injunction brief.
The fact-finding summary is remarkable because it is the most
comprehensive summary to date – anywhere – detailing the fascist,
government-wide conspiracy with Big Tech to suppress speech and thought
during the COVID-19 insanity, the 2020 election, and beyond.
The summary is the most powerful indictment yet of the
oligarchy within the federal government’s disgusting campaign to subvert
our First Amendment rights and the will of, and manipulate and control,
the public. (Read the 364-page documents here.)
On Tuesday, July 4th, 2023 – Judge Doughty issued his Order DENYING the Government’s MOTION TO DISMISS.
WHAT THIS MEANS
The past year’s legal battle has solely been over Missouri, Louisiana, and Gateway Pundit, et al’s ability
or right to prosecute this lawsuit. The Government’s efforts
heretofore have been focused on obfuscating and stonewalling evidence on
the one hand, and engaging in numerous tactics to extricate itself from
the lawsuit, including through the filing of multiple motions to
dismiss and to change venue (that is, to change courts in order to draw a
communist judge who favors authoritarian government and widespread
governmental censorship.
Now that the Government lost its main effort to crush us, the real war begins.
Having lost this crucial battle, the Government will be compelled to
engage in full, “general” discovery. This means that Missouri,
Louisiana, The Gateway Pundit, and the rest of the plaintiffs will be
empowered to conduct a wide-ranging investigation into the Government’s
fascist conspiracy with Big Tech to shut down speech, censor thought,
and engage in population manipulation through information control, in
contravention of our First Amendment (Find a Copy of Judge Doughty’s Order Denying the Motion to Dismiss, here.)
On this day, July 4, 2023, a landmark decision emerges in Missouri v. Biden.
The federal judge has partially granted an injunction that now
prohibits DHS, FBI, DOJ, and numerous other federal agencies from
colluding with Big Tech to censor posts on social media.
“IT IS ORDERED, ADJUDGED, AND DECREED that Plaintiffs’ Motion for
Preliminary Injunction is GRANTED in part and DENIED in part,” said
Judge Terry Doughty, United States District Judge.
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