Greene claimed a Supreme Court ruling on social media in favor of the Biden administration could undercut free speech.
Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene responded with fury after the Supreme Court on Wednesday overturned a lower court ruling limiting contact between the Biden administration and major social media companies, which she said „may sink the ship“ regarding free speech in the United States.
The Supreme Court voted 6-3 to overturn the ruling of a federal appeals court in Louisiana, which concluded that interactions between social media companies and the federal government under President Biden, including requests to remove content, constituted a likely violation of the First Amendment and must be curtailed.
„I’m shocked, Greene said on Steve Bannon’s War Room podcast regarding the decision. „I feel our First Amendment has been hit hard. This is a war on our free speech, this is a war on our First Amendment rights, and this was a heavy blow. This was basically one that may sink the ship.“
Newsweek reached out to Greene for comment on Thursday via email outside of usual business hours.
Writing on behalf of the six judges who backed overturning the decision, Justice Amy Coney Barrett, a Trump appointee, said the Louisiana appeals court had based its verdict on „clearly erroneous“ evidence.
Specifically, she said there is no record to suggest the Biden administration had sent a large number of requests to X, formerly Twitter, urging the social media giant to remove content, though it did once request the removal of a fake account impersonating the president’s granddaughter.
