Judge Terry Doughty has refused to back down on the injunction against the feds in Missouri v. Biden.
"Violation of a First Amendment Constitutional right, even for a short period of time, is always irreparable injury," he said.
@gregpiper
@JustTheNews
:
The Biden administration's blatant disregard for the free speech rights of Americans has been exposed by NCLA's lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden.
Read more about what may be "the most important civil liberties case of the modern era."
@hotairblog
:
Yes. This is happening in our country. The U.S. Surgeon General and HHS demanded social media platforms turn over info about users the Government deems problematic and directed them to censor alleged “misinformation” about Covid-19. We're suing them.
Leaked CDC emails have confirmed that the feds coerced
#BigTech
to turn over info about "problematic" users & to censor alleged “misinformation” about Covid-19.
NCLA has filed to reopen our lawsuit against HHS on behalf of deplatformed users.
@JustTheNews
A physician with a gag order is NOT a physician you can trust. ❌
WATCH: NCLA's case video explains how California Assembly Bill 2098 (AB 2098) unlawfully subjects doctors to discipline for disseminating “misinformation” about Covid-19 to patients.
NCLA client Brianne Dressen experienced devastating neurological symptoms after receiving the Covid vaccine. When she tried to create an online support group for those who had similar reactions to the vaccine, Facebook quickly shut it down.
@WSJopinion
:
Your smartphone could be spying on you. 👀
WATCH: NCLA's class-action lawsuit exposes the Massachusetts Department of Public Health for working with Google to auto-install Covid tracing spyware on the phones of over one million residents.
The U.S. Supreme Court has lifted restrictions on the Biden Administration's efforts to censor Americans on social media.
Read why Justice Samuel Alito believes the decision is “highly disturbing,” and a threat to the First Amendment:
#BREAKING
: Judge Doughty of the Dist. Court for the Western Dist. of Louisiana has granted NCLA's request to depose fed officials, including Dr. Fauci, Jen Psaki, Vivek Murthy, & others, about their involvement in censoring Americans online.
Even 20 years ago, this would have gone without saying: “When FBI agents like Elvis Chan coordinate w/ private companies to censor critics of the govt, it violates the 1st Amendment.” Apparently, Orwell was only off by a few of decades.
#KG3Prize
#Georgies
We've been
#censored
❌!
YouTube has removed NCLA's recording of our recent Lunch & Law regarding Missouri v. Biden and the government's censorship on social media.
Catch it on
@rumblevideo
now:
Silenced for life?
Former ACLU president Nadine Strossen,
@elonmusk
,
@mcuban
, Philip Goldstein, Nelson Obus, and ten liberty-minded organizations ask SCOTUS to review SEC’s unconstitutional gag rules as amici in Romeril v SEC.
Constitutionalist Batman may not be the hero we deserve, but he is the hero we need! How else can we stop the Jokers who think the Executive Branch has the power to legislate?
#KG3Prize
#Georgies
Vote now!
CDC has backtracked on earlier claims that vaccines provide more protection than natural immunity. NCLA's Mark Chenoweth said entities will face lawsuits if they refuse new CDC guidance.
"We would certainly tee up a new lawsuit," he said.
@EpochTimes
:
We've filed an amicus brief in support of NY State Sen. George Borrello's lawsuit against NY State actors, including Gov. Hochul, for implementing a rule that sets up isolation & quarantine procedures for those suspected of having a communicable disease.
🏛️🧵(1/5) Today’s decision overturning Chevron deference reins in unimpeded regulatory power that has degraded a free society and threatened liberty.
Judges will no longer interpret statutes with a pro-government bias when regulations are challenged in Court. There will not be a
BREAKING 🚨: The U.S. Supreme Court has agreed to hear NCLA's lawsuit, Missouri v. Biden, challenging the government's efforts to censor
#FreeSpeech
online.
Read the
#SCOTUS
order here:
The Dept. of Ed has begun illegally wiping out $39 billion of student loan debt owed by +800,000 people enrolled in the Income-Driven Repayment program. NCLA has called to stop this scheme that disregards federal law, the Constitution, and
#SCOTUS
.
NCLA’s fishermen clients have landed the biggest catch of their lives by persuading the U.S. Supreme Court to take its thumb off the scale when ordinary Americans are contesting unlawful government regulations.
When NCLA was founded less than seven years ago, taking down
WATCH: NCLA’s new case video exposes backdoor dealings between the gov’t &
#BigTech
to censor the private speech of Americans.
We have filed 2 lawsuits seeking to put a stop to unlawful federal-gov't censorship in the public square.
🚨 NCLA,
@AGJeffLandry
, &
@AGAndrewBailey
are calling on the 5th Cir. to affirm U.S. Dist. Judge Doughty's PI preventing federal agencies & gov't officials from pressuring or coordinating with social media companies to censor protected speech of Americans.
It's illegal to predicate children’s access to education and ability to participate in recreational activities on receipt of a Covid vaccine.
Read NCLA's Jenin Younes on why such medical decisions should be made by parents, not governments.
#BREAKING
🚨: The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit has dismissed the case against Ben Domenech and FDRLST Media over a joke posted on Twitter.
This is a MAJOR win for NCLA,
@FDRLST
, and
@bdomenech
, but most importantly a win for
#FreeSpeech
.
Missed
@JudiciaryGOP
's 2-hour hearing held by
@RepThomasMassie
on reining in out-of-control federal agency tribunals?
We've got you covered with a 30-second summary.
The administrative law judges are unconstitutional!
#BREAKING
🚨: Discovery in NCLA's lawsuit against the Biden Admin has revealed that scores of federal officials across at least 11 federal agencies have secretly communicated with social-media platforms to censor & suppress private speech.
Read more:
In a major NCLA win, the full 5th Cir. has ruled that a bump stock does not fall within the definition of “machinegun” as set forth in federal law. Thus, the ATF lacked the statutory authority to issue the Final Rule banning bump stocks.
FBI agent Elvis Chan, along with dozens of other govt bureaucrats, treated social media like their own personal version of The Matrix. If they didn’t like something, they would simply erase it. Vote now!
#KG3Prize
#Georgies
#ICYMI
: CDC has finally admitted what NCLA has said since the beginning--it makes no sense to treat people with natural immunity to COVID differently from those who have been vaxxed. ALL employers who have fired naturally immune people should rehire them.
In her
@FedSoc
blog, NCLA's
@CaseyNormando
explains the latest updates in Missouri v. Biden.
"Whatever the ultimate outcome of this case, I recommend that readers keep their eyes peeled, as the fate of free speech and misinformation hangs in the balance."
Did you hear? NCLA is officially headed back to the Supreme Court!
Read how we're defending the rights of New England fishermen and challenging judicial deference at the highest court in the land.
@CourthouseNews
:
California has quietly repealed a law that could have had a chilling effect on physicians' speech, thereby compromising sacred doctor-patient relationships. NCLA has successfully challenged the law, AB 2098, in the case of Høeg v. Newsom. ⚖️
@reason
:
The
@ACLU
has joined NCLA's suit against a new law that would give the California Medical Board the authority to punish doctors for sharing Covid-19 "misinformation" with their patients.
Read more
@nypost
:
At
#SCOTUS
this morning ahead of NCLA's landmark case Relentless v. DOC!
This crucial lawsuit pushes back on Chevron deference and NOAA's unconstitutional mandate that fisheries pay for at-sea gov't monitoring of their catch. 🎣
#AdministrativeState
Today,
#SCOTUS
heard oral arguments in Relentless v. DOC challenging unlawful Chevron deference and an unconstitutional NOAA rule.
We hope that the Court overturn Chevron and rein in the
#AdministrativeState
later this summer!
More here:
We were told repeatedly that deplatforming on social media was not a 1st Amendment violation because the government wasn’t involved. Oops!
#KG3Prize
#Georgies
"Today, the Supreme Court ruled that Americans’ First Amendment rights are violated when they are arrested in retaliation for their speech.
The decision opens the courthouse doors for those Americans who have been arrested for criticizing the government."
Congratulations,
@IJ
!
🏆 VICTORY 🏆
In
#GonzalezVTrevino
, the
#SupremeCourt
holds that probable cause does NOT preclude a claim for retaliatory arrest when evidence of retaliation is present.
Learn more at
#IJatSCOTUS
It's official: CA Gov. Gavin Newsom has backed down from his attempt to silence doctors who dare to speak out against the mainstream narrative on Covid-19.
NCLA is proud to have stood up for our clients' 1st Amd. rights & helped secure this important win.
Our Founding Fathers rightly did not trust the government to be the arbiter of truth.
Now, agencies are silencing experts like
@DrJBhattacharya
and others for challenging the government's views about COVID-19 on social media.
This is a massive
#freespeech
violation & must stop!
In his recent op-ed for
@WSJopinion
, NCLA Founder & CEO Professor Philip Hamburger describes the government's coercion of social media platforms to censor Americans as "the most massive assault on free speech in the nation's history."
Read more:
#WATCH
:
@Leftylockdowns1
& client Dr. Jay Bhattacharya discuss the
#GreatBarringtonDeclaration
& our lawsuit against gov't censorship online.
"The 1st Amd. is pretty clear that the gov't can’t censor people based on their viewpoints,” said Younes.
@unherd
Every American has the right to a jury trial, and it is unjustifiable for
@SECGov
to eliminate juries from its enforcement proceedings simply because they disagree with certain verdicts.
That's why we're urging
#SCOTUS
to dismantle SEC's unlawful system.
"The First Amendment protects not only the right to express views but also the right to hear what others have to say," writes NCLA CEO Philip Hamburger in his new op-ed, "Biden’s Social-Media Censorship Harms Us All."
Read more in
@WSJopinion
:
🏛️We will continue our fight for free speech!
🧵Thread (1/5) Today's decision Murthy v. Missouri enables the censorship industrial complex and will have grave consequences for Americans’ freedom for years to come.
As a practical matter, for the vast majority of plaintiffs,
We're suing Gov. Newsom & the CA Medical Board over efforts to censor doctors.
“CA's new ‘misinformation’ law is the result of an increasingly censorious mentality that has gripped many lawmakers in this country,” said
@Leftylockdowns1
.
@CaliforniaGlobe
:
During the Supreme Court's January 2024 session, the Justices will hear arguments in NCLA's lawsuit challenging the Chevron precedent & an unconstitutional NOAA rule that requires fishing companies to pay for at-sea gov't monitoring.
Read more
@nytimes
: .
Our recent
#SCOTUS
victory was a unanimous win for NCLA client Michelle Cochran, who now has the right to challenge the constitutionality of her Administrative Law Judge’s removal protections in federal court before undergoing an administrative proceeding.
The Biden admin is at it again, trying to silence voices that don't align with its agenda.
The gov't has asked
#SCOTUS
to halt the order that prevents federal officials from pressuring social media companies to censor certain viewpoints online.
@WSJ
:
Did you hear? NCLA is gearing up for another groundbreaking case at
#SCOTUS
, this time to combat government-induced censorship on social media. 📱
Find out how we're fighting for your freedom of speech at the highest court in the land:
The Biden Admin put an end to the federal Covid-19 vaccine mandate on May 11, signaling the end of the pandemic. But NCLA's new video exposes a troubling reality: California's AB 2098 still punishes doctors for advising their patients against the vaccine.
"That this shocking bill passed through the state legislature & was signed into law by Gov. Newsom demonstrates that far too many Americans do not understand the 1st Amd," said
@Leftylockdowns1
regarding the new CA law that censors medical advice.
@FoxNews
On behalf of
@CatoInstitute
and the
@MackinacCenter
, NCLA has filed a lawsuit to stop President Biden’s utter disregard for federal law and the Constitution.
Read more about Cato Institute, Mackinac Center for Public Policy v. Miguel Cardona:
The list of pending Supreme Court cases!
With topics, summaries, and questions presented.
Some will be decided on Thursday and Friday.
Thank you,
@NRO
and
@baseballcrank
!
Our nation’s pandemic response has revealed cracks in our political system & the real-life consequences of Americans caught in it. NCLA has been on
#TeamReality
since the start, filing numerous suits against illegal
#COVID19
mitigation efforts. Learn more:
🔥
#SCOTUS
has declared open season on Americans’ right to free speech online.
Under the guise of fighting misinformation, the government silenced expert scientists like Drs.
@DrJBhattacharya
and
@MartinKulldorff
for criticizing its COVID response.
The
#FirstAmendment
exists to
#WATCH
: 7 years after EPA’s Gold King Mine spill, the agency refuses to compensate the landowner, Todd Hennis. Without permission, EPA triggered a blowout releasing over 3 million gallons of acid drainage into the Animas River. Here's why we're suing:
The Constitution forbids the government from abridging the freedom of speech.
WHETHER ITS EFFORTS RISE TO THE LEVEL OF COERCION OR NOT!!!
Every American has the right to listen, read, form opinions, & participate in public life.
@JeninYounesEsq
for
@DailyCaller
on Murthy v.
Wait, what?
Our clients
@MarkChangizi
,
@danielkotzin
, & Michael Senger have been suspended and even banned from social media on the orders of the U.S. government, no less.
ICYMI:
#SCOTUS
has agreed to hear NCLA's Relentless v. Dept. of Commerce lawsuit, which questions Chevron deference & an unlawful regulation that mandates fishing companies to bear the cost of at-sea gov't monitoring of their herring catch.
#lawtwitter
"It was a policy designed to make sure the American public did not hear that there were other alternative scientific views than just lockdown, lockdown, lockdown," NCLA client
@DrJBhattacharya
tells
@TuckerCarlson
on being 'blacklisted' from Twitter.
A few words about today's argument in the Supreme Court in Murthy v. Missouri. Merely invoking the concept of "safety" does not justify government censorship. The last four years could not have illustrated that more clearly: eminent scientists were censored in the domains 1/
"Let’s not make forced vaccination of young children, which is unconstitutional and illegal under federal law, the next way in which we disregard their interests to mollify adults’ irrational fears,” writes NCLA’s Jenin Younes in her recent op-ed for WSJ.
The Biden Administration may be determined to censor free speech, but NCLA is equally determined to defend your constitutional rights.
Read our latest
#SCOTUS
brief in Missouri v. Biden. ⬇️
Robert Wright will admit he's not much of a techie, but he knows that he has the right to reject an app getting downloaded on his smartphone.
We're suing the Admin State for working to auto-install COVID-tracing software onto 1M+ devices without consent.
#BREAKING
: CDC just extended its unlawful eviction moratorium through Oct. 3.
Even after
#SCOTUS
concluded that the existing moratorium had no legal foundation, and Congress refused to grant CDC authority to impose it.
Courts must swiftly shut down CDC's lawless actions now!
We are back at
#SCOTUS
today to argue Murthy v. Missouri!
NCLA is urging the Justices to uphold an injunction granted by the Fifth Circuit that would bar officials from the White House, CDC, FBI, CISA, and Surgeon General’s office from coercing social media platforms to censor
Mark Zuckerberg’s recent letter to Congress confirms what we’ve been saying all along in Murthy v. Missouri: Big Tech is bowing to government pressure and trampling on free speech—but the devil is in the details.
In his latest
@WSJopinion
piece, our CEO and founder, Philip
#SCOTUS
🏛️ STATEMENTS ON MURTHY V. MISSOURI FROM NCLA LITIGATION COUNSEL JENIN YOUNES AND NCLA SENIOR LITIGATION COUNSEL JOHN VECCHIONE:
“The Court has green lighted the government’s unprecedented censorship regime, which resulted in the censorship of top scientists like our
🏛️Today’s
#SCOTUS
decision in Garland v. Cargill affirms the role of Congress as the sole writer of criminal laws!
ATF exceeded its statutory authority!
We're delighted that the Court has vindicated our client’s
@michaeldcargill
position that ATF does not have the power to
It's
#GivingTuesday
, a perfect day to join NCLA in our unwavering commitment to halt the abuse of power by federal agencies. Visit to make a donation and become part of a dynamic civil liberties movement. Together, we can protect our constitutional rights.
In Murthy v. Missouri,
#SCOTUS
protected the government’s ability to censor truthful speech that opposed the government’s false and manipulative narratives on multiple aspects of the Covid-19 pandemic.
The Court's 6-3 decision overturned a significant
NCLA's lawsuit, Murthy v. Missouri, challenges the government's coercion of social media companies to censor specific opinions on social media.
Learn more about how NCLA is fighting for your First Amendment rights at the U.S. Supreme Court 👇
@NBCNews
:
AGREED,
@DrJBhattacharya
. Today's decision completely ERASES the
#FirstAmendment
in the digital age.
The government CANNOT censor people simply because it disagrees or dislikes their views.
Congress MUST ACT to rebuke this wayward decision and restore the First Amendment rights
The Supreme Court just ruled in the Murthy v. Missouri case that the Biden Administration can coerce social media companies to censor and shadowban people and posts it doesn't like. Congress will now need to act to enforce the Constitution since the Sup. Ct. won't.
"It is a great irony that those who have been so wrong throughout the pandemic now seek to silence dissenters, particularly those who have proven prescient on many topics," said NCLA's Jenin Younes
@Leftylockdowns1
in her article for
@brownstoneinst
.
Our client, epidemiologist
@MartinKulldorff
, explains why the government’s censorship regime not only robs Americans of their right to speak freely but also prevents them from their right to hear different views.
Watch the full interview with
@LizWolfeReason
and
When he ran CFPB, Richard Cordray was said to be the second most powerful man in the federal government. Now that he’s running Federal Student Aid, it feels like he’s trying to overcompensate with the sheer size of his lawless exploits.
#KG3Prize
#Georgies
NCLA is taking a stand against the govt's attempt to dismiss our case against Biden's unlawful Covid vaccine mandate for govt contractors. Biden may have withdrawn the mandate in May, but he still claims the authority to bring it back whenever he pleases.
👏 Major props to
@ProfMJCleveland
and
@Trink44
for knocking it out of the park with this one!
The State Department's misuse of tax dollars to silence part of our press is a blatant assault on democracy.
Let's stand up for the principles of
#freespeech
and freedom of the press
🔥🔥🔥THREAD: Today a federal court in Texas granted
@realDailyWire
@FDRLST
&
@KenPaxtonTX
expedited discovery in their lawsuit against the State Department & GEC, with youthful powerhouse public interest law firm
@NCLAlegal
representing Media Plaintiffs. 1/
Congress NEVER gave
@ATFHQ
the power to rewrite federal criminal statutes pertaining to machine guns—nor could it.
That's why we're taking it to
#SCOTUS
on February 28.
NCLA is fighting back. We’re suing Surgeon General Vivek Murthy and HHS Secretary Xavier Becerra because they don’t have the statutory authority to issue this request from social platforms.
It is said that Ben Franklin quipped the Constitution gives the people "a republic, if you can keep it." The state supreme court says Pennsylvanians can't! Must-read op-ed by Mark Chenoweth:
If the government can't pass a law blocking speech, then it should not be able to bully social media platforms into blocking it.
We hope the Court will reject this unlawful government action and fully restore the First Amendment!
🔥 Great piece,
@JonathanTurley
! The government has declared open season on Americans’ right to free speech—especially online.
The
#FirstAmendment
exists to shield us from censorship. They can’t silence us just because they disagree! 🚫🗣️
It’s time to push the government out of
The Hill is out with my column on how we can get the government out of the censorship business. Let’s get our government out of the business of rating, throttling blacklisting, and censoring citizens. It is time to pass a free speech protection act.
As we wait for the Supreme Court to rule on the Murthy v. Missouri case, remember that the Biden admin. is claiming the first amendment gives it the right to force social media companies to blacklist your social media posts, and you do not have a right to know they did it.
Push the one on the left! 🚨
There is no hesitation when civil liberties are at stake. NCLA likes to push the buttons of government agencies when they are abusing their power. Defend democracy!
Visit to learn more on how we're protecting your rights.
"My thanks to the Third Circuit for this decision, which honors and defends free speech and the right to tell a joke even if a humorless Twitter troll doesn't get it," said
@bdomenech
.
(5/5) Today’s decision levels the playing field when it comes to future lawsuits over federal regulations.
Opponents of deference still have to remain vigilant against unconstitutional statutory amendments trying to re-introduce Chevron deference through the backdoor.
The fact that the gov't is pressuring social media companies into censoring Americans like
@AaronKheriatyMD
on their platforms is egregious & a direct
#freespeech
violation.
NCLA is fighting back by presenting oral argument before
#SCOTUS
in Murthy v. Missouri!
The dismantling of the unlawful Administrative State has officially begun.
Judges will no longer interpret statutes with a pro-government bias when regulations are challenged in court.
There will not be a thumb on the scale for the government and against citizens like the