BREAKING: DOJ Appeals Doughty’s Injunction Ruling

Defendant’s lawyers file appeal to overturn Injunction which barred them from conducting further communications with Tech Platforms

One day after Judge Doughty granted the plaintiff’s request for a preliminary injunction on the Biden Administration and others named in the suit, the Defendant’s lawyers filed an appeal to overturn the ruling which barred them from conducting further censorship or communications intended to continue engaging in said conduct with Tech Platforms.

In Aaron Kheharty’s Substack post that was published the same day the appeal was filed, he gives a general overview of the injunction’s intent.

If such communications continue, they will be subject to subpoena in our case and could implicate the actors in criminal liabilities for violating the injunction.

In his 155 page ruling, the Judge commented that, “If the allegations made by Plaintiffs are true, the present case arguably involves the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history.”

More specifically, the injunction would stop the defendants from meeting with social-media companies for the purpose of pressuring or inducing in any manner the removal or suppression of protected free speech;

• flagging posts on social-media platforms and/or forwarding to social-media companies urging the same;

• collaborating with the Election Integrity Partnership, the Virality Project, the Stanford Internet Observatory, or any “like project” or group for the same purpose;

• threatening or coercing social-media companies to remove protected free speech.

The immediate appeal is standard, yet it’s an intriguing development, nonetheless. Despite the 1st Amendment implications being alleged by the Plaintiffs, which Doughty aligns with, it’s too early to tell whether the appeal will be successful.

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