And we are back. With another edition of the Federalist Radio Hour, I'm Matt Kiddell, senior elections correspondent at The Federalist, and your experience Sherpa on today's quest for knowledge.

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John Vecione, Senior Litigation Council for the new Civil Liberties Alliance, which just

won a huge First Amendment victory over government speech police. John,

welcome back. Thank you so much for joining us in the Federalist Radio Hour. Great to be here.

You've got great news as we talk. Judge, right before we went on the podcast, gives you what you

were ultimately looking for you,

that had one step left and the judge signed on to this amazing agreement that really does

aim to stop what we saw for too many years during, quite frankly, the Biden administration.

You didn't happen under any administration,

but we just saw a complete, you know, strong arming of social media by the government to silence the

speech of all kinds of folks, particularly conservatives.

Yeah, it's true. Now, I will say this, the activities started under COVID, under the first

Trump administration, but it wasn't that they were run out of the White House then.

It doesn't appear. But the allegations start in the Trump administration, and then they

ratchet up exponentially in the Biden administration with what they called a whole of government approach to stamping down views they didn't like.

And I'll mention the case. The case name right now is Missouri v. Biden. I think that's what we've called it. But Biden for the preliminary injunction was dropped out of the case because you can't and join the president.

So it was Murphy v. Missouri folks might have heard of it when it was at the Supreme Court.

So I just want to say where we are.

And after a lot of jockeying, a lot of legal maneuvers, we've entered a consent decree, which makes a lot of great statements about free speech

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