We’re probably overdue to give due recognition to Trump-appointed federal Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana.
We’re probably overdue here at The American Spectator to give due recognition to Trump-appointed federal Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana. It’s Doughty’s courtroom from which come a disproportionate number of rulings that breathe life into the myriad of multi-state lawsuits filed by state attorneys general against the Biden administration.
As an example, Doughty multiple times issued national injunctions sparing Americans from being coerced into submitting to COVID vaccines as job requirements. He also stopped the Biden administration’s moratorium on oil and gas leases on federal lands last year.
There have been numerous other Doughty rulings that have confounded Team Biden and the Deep State in their efforts to centralize political, economic, and cultural power. The ruling elite do not like Terry Doughty.
And boy, they really won’t like him now.
Because, on Tuesday, fittingly enough, Doughty issued a nationwide injunction against the Biden administration in the case of Missouri v. Biden, a lawsuit filed over the federal government’s forced collusion with Big Tech companies to censor and suppress public discussion of several key issues of interest to vast swaths of the population. From the opinion:
Plaintiffs allege that Defendants suppressed conservative-leaning free speech, such as: (1) suppressing the Hunter Biden laptop story prior to the 2020 Presidential election; (2) suppressing speech about the lab-leak theory of COVID-19’s origin; (3) suppressing speech about the efficiency of masks and COVID-19 lockdowns; (4) suppressing speech about the efficiency of COVID-19 vaccines; (5) suppressing speech about election integrity in the 2020 presidential election; (6) suppressing speech about the security of voting by mail; (7) suppressing parody content about Defendants; (8) suppressing negative posts about the economy; and (9) suppressing negative posts about President Biden.
Nobody who didn’t live under a rock in America was unaware that these actions were happening. Those discussions were without question suppressed. If you’re a regular listener to The Spectacle podcast, which The American Spectator publisher Melissa Mackenzie and I produce weekly, you’ll know that we’re now banned from uploading to YouTube because a few weeks ago we had the temerity to discuss the infirmities in how the 2020 presidential election was conducted. That’s why the podcast is based on Twitter now.
The suppression and censorship is blatantly, infuriatingly real. The issue was whether it originates from the actions of the federal government.
And Doughty believes they were. Also from the opinion:
The Plaintiffs are likely to succeed on the merits in establishing that the Government has used its power to silence the opposition. Opposition to COVID-19 vaccines; opposition to COVID-19 masking and lockdowns; opposition to the lab-leak theory of COVID-19; opposition to the validity of the 2020 election; opposition to President Biden’s policies; statements that the Hunter Biden laptop story was true; and opposition to policies of the government officials in power.
