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The Buckeye Institute filed its second amicus brief in Missouri v. Biden. This one urging the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit to uphold a preliminary injunction—that forbids the Biden Administration from “jawboning” social media companies to censor viewpoints the government does not agree with—until the case is resolved. In this brief, Buckeye highlights several examples going back to World War II, when the federal government provided the American public with information only to find later that the government’s initial assessment was, in fact, wrong.

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.