Louisiana heads to the United States Supreme Court to defend our First Amendment rights against government censorship

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.

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.