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Louisiana heads to the United States Supreme Court to defend our First Amendment rights against government censorship
WHO: Louisiana Attorney
General Liz Murrill and Solicitor General Benjamin Aguiñaga
WHAT: Murthy v.
Missouri
WHERE: Supreme Court of the
United States in Washington D.C.
WHEN: Oral arguments begin
at 10 a.m. EST, Monday, March 18
WHY:
George Orwell wrote Nineteen Eighty-Four as a warning against
tyranny. He never intended it to be used as a how-to guide by the federal
government. Yet our case has uncovered over 20,000 pages of documents -- along
with over 100 pages of fact findings by a district judge -- highlighting an
extensive censorship campaign stemming directly from the President of the
United States and his federal government.
As a result, this has become one of the most important cases in
a century related to the First Amendment. Oral arguments will be made before
the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, March 18, 2024. That is when we will present
a powerful argument to the Court, which we believe will validate the original
ruling by a district judge that Biden’s censorship enterprise is a massive
violation of the First Amendment.
Freedom of speech is one of the most important liberties we have
as Americans, serving as a bulwark to protect democracy from a government that
might censor its people. We hope to get a strong, powerful message from the
United States Supreme Court that the First Amendment still matters and that the
federal government cannot engage in a broad ranging enterprise to stifle
protected speech.