Judge Doughty Strikes Again: US Government Illegally Stifled Free Speech of RFK Jr. and Children’s Health Defense

As noted by Bloomberg Law, in a Valentine’s Day win for free speech, on February 14, Judge Terry Doughty of the of the US District Court for the Western District of Louisiana issued an injunction against federal authorities, including the White House, ordering them to refrain from “actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly, to coerce or significantly encourage social-media companies to remove, delete, suppress or reduce, including through altering their algorithms, posted social-media content containing protected free speech.” This follows Doughty’s similar ruling covered by TrialSite last year in Murthy v. Missouri, originally filed as Missouri v. Biden. The Murthy case is before the US Supreme Court, and this new February 14 ruling was put on hold by the judge until SCOTUS can weigh in. Presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy Jr. and Children’s Health Defense were key plaintiffs in the new ruling, and they allege that government actions to prevent dissemination of their vaccine-related statements violates the First Amendment to the US Constitution. Judge Doughty ruled that the actions of the White House, Surgeon General, CDC, and the FBI likely violated the plaintiffs’ constitution rights to free speech.

Censored speech includes COVID-19 treatments