Attorney General Andrew Bailey Profile picture
Aug 10, 2023 17 tweets 2 min read Read on X
Today's oral argument in Missouri v. Biden proved what we've known all along: the Biden Administration has shamelessly and relentlessly coerced and colluded with social media platforms to censor free speech,

Some highlights from the hearing:
Biden’s lawyer seriously insinuated COVID caused a lot in the world to change, and thus, government censorship is permissible.
Biden's lawyer also said that Americans have not been harmed by the vast censorship enterprise emanating from the Biden White House.

Every American who has had a post removed or deplatformed would beg to differ.
Biden's lawyer asserted that they have never once threatened social media companies into censoring free speech.

He must be suffering from memory loss. Here's a recap:
Joe Biden told reporters that "Facebook is killing people" because they originally refused to silence truthful information about the COVID vaccine.
Jen Psaki spouted from the WH podium that social media companies would lose their Section 230 immunity if they didn't work with the feds to remove disfavored speech.
White House Digital Director Rob Flaherty told Twitter that “if your product is appending misinformation to our tweets that seems like a pretty fundamental issue”
Flaherty used the F-word to convey his disgust to social media companies that Biden's Instagram account wasn't gaining followers after Meta's algorithm identified it as a spreader of vaccine misinformation.

Can't make this up.
Quickly after these interactions, the social media companies' resistance to censor quickly crumbled.
Back to highlights of the hearing.
One of the judges noted that the exchanges between the feds and the social media companies include "veiled and not-so-veiled threats" as the government "strongarms" the tech companies into censoring speech.
Another judge called out Biden's lawyer, noting that "You talk about these meetings [between the feds and social media companies] as if they're friendly."
The judge also pointed out that when the federal government says jump, social media companies merely say "how high", seemingly due to the immense pressure to censor Americans' speech.
The same judge then asked Biden's lawyer if hypothetically, it matters if the federal government knowingly censors true speech if it disagrees with the government's narrative (i.e. COVID-19).

The government unabashedly said, "No."
Today's hearing was further proof that Joe Biden has zero respect for the Constitution.
But Missouri is fighting back. He will not get away with this blatant First Amendment violation.
Stay tuned.

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Mar 7
🚨BREAKING: Today, Missouri secured a $24 BILLION judgment against the Chinese Communist Party in a historic COVID lawsuit.

This ruling is 6x larger than the biggest court judgment in Missouri’s history.

Missouri is leading the fight.
This lawsuit, first filed by @Eric_Schmitt, was about justice for every Missourian whose life, business, and livelihood were devastated by China's lies.

Missouri stood up to fight for our people.
The judgment sends a clear message: The CCP is not above the law.

Their deception and cover-up cost lives — and they must pay.
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Missouri farmers built this state. I will protect them.

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This decision was made before issuing a full environmental review.
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This is a government-sponsored land grab disguised as environmentalism.
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Instead of abiding by the court orders, the Biden Administration retaliated.

We are taking action to protect Missourians and ensure this lawless abuse never happens again.

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We took the fight all the way to the U.S. Supreme Court and won.

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I led 23 AGs in putting Biden on notice that this latest scheme is unlawful and must be rescinded immediately.

We are prepared for yet another court battle if he tries again. Image
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We are 10-0 with the lawless Biden Administration in our fight to block their illegal redistribution of wealth.

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