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WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Supreme Court Passes on Social-Media Censorship

WSJ Opinion: Potomac Watch

The Wall Street Journal

News, Society & Culture

4.22.8K Ratings

🗓️ 26 June 2024

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

In a 6-3 decision on legal standing, the Justices reject a First Amendment challenge to government pressure on social sites, such as Facebook and Twitter, to remove disputed user posts, including on Covid-19. Plus, two federal judges appointed by President Obama block another student-loan forgiveness promise by Joe Biden, in rulings against the administration's SAVE plan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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slash Wall Street. From the opinion pages of the Wall Street Journal

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this is Potomac Watch.

0:24.7

In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court rejects a challenge to government jaw-boding of social

0:30.0

media sites like Facebook and Twitter to take down or moderate more content.

0:35.0

Plus President Biden's latest suit alone forgiveness loses in federal court before two judges appointed by President Obama.

0:42.0

Welcome, I'm Kyle Peterson with the Wall Street Journal.

0:45.0

We are joined today by my colleagues, columnists Alicia Finley and Kim Strassal.

0:51.0

The Supreme Court is almost to its summer finish line, though there

0:54.7

are still some big cases outstanding, but one fewer, as of about 10 a.m. this morning,

0:59.7

that's when the justices dropped their opinions in Murphy v Missouri. This is the case on the

1:05.8

federal government's coordination with social media sites largely during the

1:10.1

COVID pandemic. Alicia, it is a 6-3 decision, but not the 6-3 that listeners are probably imagining.

1:17.3

The majority opinion is written by Justice Amy Coney Barrett, joined by the Chief Justice

1:22.1

and Brett Kavanaugh, plus the three liberals. berry

1:24.0

joined by the Chief Justice and Brett Kavanaugh, plus the three liberals and then a dissent

1:26.0

by Justice Samuel Alito,

1:28.0

joined by justices Clarence Thomas

1:30.0

and Neil Gorsuch.

1:32.0

Alicia, give us a sense of what the majority said here.

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