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Alito Blasts ‘Highly Disturbing’ Supreme Court Ruling: Gives ‘Green Light’ to Biden ‘Heavy-Handed’ Social Media Censorship
WASHINGTON, DC – Federal officials and the Biden White House can resume censoring conservatives on social media for now, as a divided Supreme Court on Monday stayed a lower court injunction that had blocked such censorship on First Amendment grounds – a decision Justice Samuel Alito called “highly disturbing.”
“This case concerns what two lower courts found to be a coordinated campaign by high-level federal officials to suppress the expression of disfavored views on important public issues,” Alito wrote in a dissent from the court’s ruling, noting that the injunction the justices now blocked had stopped Biden administration officials from “either coercing social media companies to engage in such censorship or actively controlling those companies’ decisions about the content posted on their platforms.”
Then-Missouri Attorney General (now-Senator) Eric Schmitt and Louisiana Attorney General (now-Governor-elect) Jeff Landry filed suit. Several private citizens joined, including Covid medical experts whose views on Covid-19 were suppressed on social media, alleging that the Biden administration was censoring views – including scientific analysis of data – that differed from Joe Biden’s and senior officials’ like Dr. Anthony Fauci and Surgeon General Vivek Murthy.
A federal judge in Louisiana sided with Schmitt and Landry, granting an injunction against White House and Biden administration officials. The court held, “It is the purpose of the Free Speech Clause of the First Amendment to preserve an uninhibited marketplace of ideas in which truth will ultimately prevail, rather than to countenance monopolization of the market, whether it be by government itself or private licensee.”
The Fifth Circuit federal appeals court affirmed, though modifying the injunction. Biden’s Justice Department sought a stay of that injunction from the U.S. Supreme Court while U.S. Solicitor General Elizabeth Prelogar files a petition for the justices to review the merits of the case.
By a 6-3 vote, the Supreme Court took the rare step of granting the stay, restoring the power of the Biden administration to pressure social media to suppress the views of the administration’s critics while the appeals process continues.
Alito dissented from granting the stay, joined by Justices Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch.
“Today … a majority of the Court, … without any explanation, suspends the effect of that injunction until the Court completes its review of this case, an event that may not occur until late in the spring of next year,” Alito continued. “Government censorship of private speech is antithetical to our democratic form of government, and therefore today’s decision is highly disturbing.”
“The injunction applies only when the Government crosses the line and begins to coerce or control others’ exercise of their free-speech rights,” Alito observed. “Does the Government think that the First Amendment allows Executive Branch officials to engage in such conduct?”
“Despite the Government’s conspicuous failure to establish a threat of irreparable harm, the majority stays the injunction and thus allows the defendants to persist in committing the type of First Amendment violations that the lower courts identified,” he added.
Alito stated:
At this time in the history of our country, what the Court has done, I fear, will be seen by some as giving the Government a green light to use heavy-handed tactics to skew the presentation of views on the medium that increasingly dominates the dissemination of news.
“That is most unfortunate,” he concluded.
The application is for the case Murthy v. Missouri, No. 23A243 in the Supreme Court of the United States.
Breitbart News senior legal contributor Ken Klukowski is a lawyer who served in the White House and Justice Department. Follow him on X (Twitter) @kenklukowski.
KENNEDY ON THE BIDEN REGIME'S CENSORSHIP OF AMERICA THROUGH HIGH TECH.
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In many speeches, border chief Alejandro Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country” Mayorkas claims.
White House Hides Plan to Expand H-1B Giveaway of College Jobs
President Joe Biden’s deputies have a new plan to help more H-1B foreigners take the white-collar salaries and opportunities that are needed by millions of indebted middle-class American graduates.
The planned giveaway was acknowledged on Friday night when few people were paying attention to the news. Biden’s officials also used the same Friday-night tactic to hide their record-breaking inflow of blue-collar southern migrants during 2023.
But the white-collar giveaway is also a golden opportunity for GOP candidates to win votes from swing-voting graduates with a promise of pro-American reforms to the H-1B program.
The program now keeps roughly 600,000 mid-skill foreign graduates in an expanding variety of non-technical and technical white-collar jobs. So far, few 2024 GOP candidates have mentioned the program, despite the GOP’s weak support among college grads.
Many CEOs prefer mid-skill H-1Bs over American professionals because the no-rights H-1B workers dare not complain about lower wages or managers’ unethical or illegal demands. The H-1Bs remain subservient because they do not want to be sent home and because they hope to get hugely valuable green cards as a deferred bonus.
The H-1B visa program also helps the companies’ stock prices, because it allows them to pocket the profits of converting many Americans’ full-time professional jobs into outsourced gig jobs for Indian-born workers.
Outsourcing also protects industry consolidation because it reduces the number of American professionals who gain enough experience to form rival companies.
The giveaway is being slammed by advocates for U.S. professionals who have long opposed the establishment’s step-by-step expansion in the number of non-immigrant contract workers who are being imported into U.S. jobs.
“This [H-1B] rule stretches definitions to get around numerical limits and dumbs down the eligibility criteria,” said Jessica Vaughan, policy director at the Center for Immigration Studies. “The program is already a scam and this rule will make matters worse.”
The changes are intended to help the Fortune 500 investors who are now “making a killing off of killing off the American workforce,” said Kevin Lynn, founder of U.S. Tech Workers. “There is no [visa worker] number that they will be satisfied with … despite the fact that there are Americans currently doing those jobs,” he added.
The new giveaway is included within a draft regulation released Friday by the Department of Homeland Security, which is run by Biden’s pro-migration border chief, Alejandro Mayorkas.
His regulation would somewhat reduce rampant fraud by the many Indian-run “body shop” companies that import Indian graduates for Fortune 500 subcontracting jobs in the United States.
But the Mayorkas rule would also allow Fortune 500 companies to import extra H-1B workers above the much-touted 85,000 cap each year.
The higher inflow is enabled by a decision to widen a prior loophole.
The loophole has quietly exempted purported nonprofits — such as universities, corporate research centers, and government agencies — from the annual 85,000 caps on for-profit companies. For example, the federal government imported 138,297 H-1B workers in 2019. The inflow was 53,000 workers above the claimed 85,000 annual cap that is misleadingly cited in nearly all media coverage of the program.
The agency’s new language says:
DHS proposes to modernize the definition of employers who are exempt from the annual statutory limit on H-1B visas to create more flexibility for nonprofit and governmental research organizations and [foreign workers] who are not directly employed by a qualifying organization. Specifically, DHS proposes to change the definition of “nonprofit research organization” and “governmental research organization” by replacing “primarily engaged” and “primary mission” with “fundamental activity” to permit a nonprofit entity or governmental research organization … where research is not a primary mission,[emphasis added], to meet the definition of a nonprofit research entity.
This provision would allow many more organizations to displace U.S. professionals if they perform some research.
The draft regulation says:
Additionally, DHS proposes to revise the requirements for beneficiaries to qualify for H-1B cap exemption when they are not directly employed [emphasis added] by a qualifying organization, but still provide essential work, even if their duties do not necessarily directly further the organization’s essential purpose.
That provision would allow the Department of Health and Human Services to sideline American professionals and instead hire foreign workers for HR and accounting jobs — via a contractor — because the agency researches Medicare and Medicaid spending patterns.
“There are Americans that can do these, are doing these jobs — they’re just not going to be going on for much longer,” said Lynn.
The huge annual inflow of visa workers excludes a huge number of American STEM graduates from jobs. The surplus U.S. tech professionals flood into the broader white-collar labor markets and then flatline wages for many graduates, including journalists.
In turn, the many mid-skill H-1B workers have created ethnic hiring networks that carefully exclude high-skilled Americans from career-starting jobs in favor of less qualified foreign graduates.
U.S. companies likely employ about 2 million white-collar visa workers via the H-1B, L-1, J-1s, H4EADs, OPT, and CPT programs.
The huge inflow of H-1B workers has also allowed Wall Street investors to grow a new management class of Indian-born CEOs, including the CEOs of Google, Microsoft, and IBM.
The rule would also help foreign students at U.S. colleges from the huge “Optional Practical Training” work program into the H-1B program. The OPT program keeps roughly 400,000 foreign graduates into American jobs each year, so making it more difficult for American graduates to get their first step in the career ladder.
The rule does not include any of the fundamental reforms launched by President Donald Trump. Those incomplete reforms included a rule that blocked abuse by allocating H-1B visas to U.S. employers who were willing to pay the most.
The rule is being lauded by advocates for U.S. employers, such as Davier Bier at the business-backed Cato Institute:
The government’s announcement of the H-1B expansion was retweeted by Todd Schulte, the president of FWD.us.
The group was founded by West Coast investors to push business-friendly migration rules, and it has a huge influence in President Joe Biden’s West Wing. The breadth of investors who founded and funded FWD.us was hidden from casual visitors to the group’s website sometime in 2021. But copies exist at the other sites.
Extraction Migration
The federal government has long operated an unpopular economic policy of Extraction Migration. This colonialism-like policy extracts vast amounts of human resources from needy countries, reduces beneficial trade, and uses the imported workers, renters, and consumers to grow Wall Street and the economy.
The migrant inflow has successfully forced down Americans’ wages and also boosted rents and housing prices. The inflow has also pushed many native-born Americans out of careers in a wide variety of business sectors and contributed to the rising death rate of poor Americans.
The lethal policy also sucks jobs and wealth from heartland states by subsidizing coastal investors with a flood of low-wage workers, high-occupancy renters, and government-aided consumers.
The population inflow also reduces the political clout of native-born Americans, because the population replacement allows elites and the establishment to divorce themselves from the needs and interests of ordinary Americans.
In many speeches, border chief Alejandro Mayorkas says he is building a mass migration system to deliver workers to wealthy employers and investors and “equity” to poor foreigners. The nation’s border laws are subordinate to elite opinion about “the values of our country” Mayorkas claims.
Migration — and especially, labor migration — is unpopular among swing voters. A 54 percent majority of Americans say immigration under President Joe Biden is making life harder for all, according to a Reuters/Ipsos poll of 4,415 adults in September. That number is up from 48 percent in July 2023. Fifty-seven percent of independents agree with the “harder” view, while just 17 percent “strongly” disagree.
Consortium News Sues NewsGuard, U.S. Government over Censorship Collaboration
Consortium News, a news website focused on foreign policy founded by an award-winning journalist who helped break the Iran-Contra story in the 1980s, is suing NewsGuard and the U.S. government over alleged collaboration to suppress its reporting, which is critical of U.S. foreign policy.
The complaint, filed in federal court, focuses on NewsGuard’s relationship with the Pentagon’s Cyber Command. In 2021, the Pentagon contracted NewsGuard to develop a system called “misinformation fingerprints” to catalogue “known hoaxes, falsehoods and misinformation narratives that are spreading online.”
The complaint alleges that the U.S. government worked with NewsGuard to target and suppress Consortium’s reporting, which frequently takes a critical stance on U.S. foreign policy towards Russia, Ukraine, and the Middle East.
Steven Brill and Gordon Crovitz, co-CEOs of NewsGuard (D Dipasupil and Stephen Chernin /Getty)
Consortium alleges that through its contract with the Pentagon, NewsGuard was “acting jointly or in concert with the United States to coerce news organizations to alter viewpoints,” engaging in the “censorship and repression of views.”
“The First Amendment rights of all American media are threatened by this arrangement with the Defense Department to defame and abridge the speech of U.S. media groups,” said Bruce Afran, the attorney representing Consortium News.
“NewsGuard uses its software to tag targeted news sites, including all 20,000+ Consortium News articles an videos published since 1995, with warnings to “proceed with caution,” telling NewsGuard subscribers that Consortium News produces “disinformation,” “false content” and is an “anti-U.S.” media organization, even though NewsGuard only took issue with a total of six CN articles and none of its videos,” said Consortium in a press release.
Consortium News was founded in 1995 by Robert Parry, one of the journalists who broke the Iran-Contra story in the 1980s. Parry broke other high-profile stories focused on the American foreign policy establishment, including stories on the CIA’s involvement in Latin American drug trafficking and “psychological operations” abroad.
Parry won the George Polk award for journalism in 1984, and was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 1985 for his Iran-Contra reporting. In 2015, Harvard University’s journalism school awarded Parry the I.F. Stone Medal for Journalistic Independence.
This journalistic pedigree is apparently not enough for NewsGuard, which attaches warning labels to all Consortium News links, advising users to “proceed with caution” due to its failure to “gather and present information responsibly” and not “repeatedly publish false of egregiously misleading content.”
One of the issues NewsGuard has with Consortium is that the latter did not go along with the establishment’s wildly exaggerated claims of Russian interference in American politics. As Breitbart News previously reported, NewsGuard took virtually no action against news organizations that spread the Russiagate hoax, while downgrading the news companies that criticized the false narrative.
Via NewsGuard’s page on Consortium News.
For example, a June 2023 article headlined “Ukraine Timeline Tells the Story” said, “The hoax known as Russiagate grips the Democratic Party and its allied media in the United States, in which it is falsely alleged that Russia interfered in the 2016 U.S. presidential election to get Donald Trump elected.”
In fact, Russia did interfere in the 2016 U.S. presidential election in numerous ways, in a manner that benefited then-Republican candidate Donald Trump. Moscow was behind a data breach faced by the Democratic National Committee that led to emails and other documents being leaked, ran influence campaigns on social media platforms, and gained access to parts of U.S. local electoral systems, according to multiple investigations by the U.S. government.
As Breitbart News has previously reported, NewsGuard’s own co-founder, Steven Brill, misled the public regarding Russia, going on national TV weeks before the 2020 election to promote the false rumor that the Hunter Biden laptop story was likely a “hoax perpetrated by the Russians.”
The same false claim was promoted by NewsGuard advisory board member Michael Hayden, a former director of the NSA and CIA who has been accused of misleading the American public for decades on topics ranging from torture programs to domestic surveillance operations. Bloomberg in 2014 wrote that Hayden was by some assessments “the nation’s biggest liar.”
Abokhari“He has lied so brazenly and so often, anything he says must be treated with instant suspicion,” wrote one reporter of Hayden, who now advises an organization that claims to be an authority on misinformation and media lies.
The case is Consortium For Independent Journalism vs. The United States of America and NewsGuard Technologies, Docket No: 23-cv-07088 in the U.S. District Court for the Southern District of New York.
Allum Bokhari is the senior technology correspondent at Breitbart News. He is the author of #DELETED: Big Tech’s Battle to Erase the Trump Movement and Steal The Election.
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