Saving Us From Free Speech

For John, BLUF:  While we hear Democrats decry Trump Republicans (aren't we all, really, in their eyes) as being anti-democratic, we see the Administration and the Zfederal Bureaucracy team up to restrict free speech in the name of protecting us.  Nothing to see here; just move along.

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Gov’t Can Continue Colluding With Big Tech, 5th Circuit Grants “Administrative Stay” of Injunction

Here is the sub-headline:

It’s not a decision on the merits, it puts a temporary hold until the court can determine the merits of the District Court injunction that prohibited government collusion with big tech and big social media to silence and censor political opponents.

From Legal Insurrection, by Lawyer William A. Jacobson, 14 July 2023, 03:48pm.

Here is the lede plus five:

After a groundbreaking and momentus District Court injunction against the government colluding with big tech and big social media to silence and censor political opponents, the government sought a stay pending appeal, including an emergency administratrive stay pending briefing, Government Seeks Stay Of Injunction Against Censorship Collusion With Big Tech.

The Fifth Circuit just granted an administrative stay:

IT IS ORDERED that this appeal is EXPEDITED to the next available Oral Argument Calendar.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that a temporary administrative stay is GRANTED until further orders of the court.

IT IS FURTHER ORDERED that Appellants’ opposed motion for stay pending appeal is deferred to the oral argument merits panel which receives this case.

An administrative stay is not on the merits, it’s a way of the court putting a temporary hold on an issue of great importance until a panel of the court can consider the motion for a stay on the merits. It’s a way to freeze the situation when one party claims time is of the essence and the matter cannot even wait days or weeks.

I thought it ironic that this was issued on the anniversary of the Alies and Sedition Acts becoming law, back on 14 July 1798. .

We are in a continuous fight for free speech.

Wihout free speech there can be no informed choice.  Without informed choice there can be no democracy.

Hat tip to the InstaPundit.

Regards  —  Cliff