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Asking the court to “imagine a scenario where senior White House staffers contact book publishers” to implement “a book-burning program,” Missouri Solicitor General D. John Sauer opened arguments Thursday for the plaintiffs in a landmark censorship case alleging U.S. government officials colluded with social media to censor content.
Thursday’s hearing before the 5th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in New Orleans, in Missouri et al. v. Biden et al., pertained to a temporary stay issued by the 5th Circuit July 14 — 10 days after Judge Terry Doughty of the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Louisiana Monroe Division issued an injunction barring federal agencies and several Biden administration officials from most communications with social media platforms.
The lawsuit, originally filed in May 2022 by the attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana and several individual plaintiffs, alleges social media platforms censored views that ran counter to the official government narrative…
