The Buckeye Institute Calls on SCOTUS to Protect Free Speech from Government “Jawboning”
After a win in Missouri v. Biden, The Buckeye Institute filed an amicus brief in O’Handley v. Weber—a free speech case out of California—calling on the U.S. Supreme Court to hear the case and stop the state of California from “jawboning” social media companies to censor viewpoints the government does not agree with. As it did in its amicus brief in Missouri v. Biden, Buckeye argues that “jawboning” blurs the line between permissible government speech and impermissible censorship schemes and raises significant concerns about the expansion of the government speech doctrine.