Supreme Court's missed opportunity to uphold freedom of speech with Murthy v. Missouri

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The Supreme Court works in strange and mysterious ways.

It can enrage the progressive left with a solidly constitutional ruling like Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization , which overturned Roe v. Wade and sent the issue of abortion to the states.

This past week, the court again declined to take up a clear case of government malfeasance by denying standing in Murthy v. Missouri. Two of the plaintiffs are public health researchers Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, who spearheaded the Great Barrington Declaration. Signed by thousands of medical authorities and scientists, that document criticized the mass lockdowns and promoted instead time-tested targeting of vulnerable populations — not everyone — as the pandemic took hold.

Thus, when the government leans on social media to suppress dissent and carry its preferred messaging, the government engages in illegal censorship. Justice Samuel Alito wrote in his dissent that the court had no such qualms about standing when it came to claims of injury from climate change or the Trump administration’s placing a question about citizenship on the census form.

 

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