Commentary
Champions of free speech had cause to rejoice over federal Judge Terry A. Doughty’s fitting Independence Day ruling in the landmark Missouri v. Biden case freezing federal government-led speech policing.
The preliminary injunction halted a censorship system responsible for staging perhaps “the most massive attack against free speech in United States’ history,” according to the judge (pdf).
Despite the magnitude of the judge’s decision, it’s far from a guarantor of our First Amendment rights. That much was made clear just 10 days later when the federal government obtained a temporary administrative stay at the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals….