By Greg Piper | Just the News
10-year agreement binds surgeon general, CDC, DHS’s Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Feds agree not to stop Louisiana, Missouri and individual plaintiffs from seeking attorney’s fees as “prevailing parties.”
Nearly two years after the Supreme Court killed free speech, in the telling of future National Institutes of Health Director Jay Bhattacharya, by letting the Biden administration resume pressuring tech platforms to censor disfavored narratives on COVID-19, elections and Hunter Biden, the Trump administration has made the plaintiffs’ wildest dreams come true.
U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty, who imposed the sweeping preliminary injunction on the feds before the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals narrowed it and SCOTUS lifted it for lack of legal standing, approved a consent decree Wednesday that he’ll oversee for the next 10 years, constraining the current and next two administrations.
Lawyers for state plaintiffs Louisiana and Missouri and individual plaintiffs asked Doughty to approve their proposal Monday after reaching agreement with the feds. One notable coup: The plaintiffs can recover attorney’s fees and the defendants “agree not to contest that Plaintiffs are prevailing parties” for the purpose of seeking attorney’s fees.
The resolution came more than a year into the Trump administration’s return to power, which started with President Trump’s day-one executive order to “immediately stop all government censorship and bring back free speech to America,” from which Doughty quotes at length in the order’s introduction.
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