A federal judge ruled on Tuesday that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. can move forward with his lawsuit against the Biden administration, accusing the government of directing censorship.
The decision follows a June ruling by the Supreme Court, which determined that those seeking to sue the Biden administration for violating their First Amendment rights—by pressuring social media companies to suppress free speech—did not have standing to bring their cases.
District Court Judge Terry Doughty stated that Robert F. Kennedy Jr. meets the Supreme Court’s standard because there is ‘ample evidence’ that he was censored at the direction of government officials and faces a ‘substantial risk’ of continued censorship, according to the Daily Caller.
Under the Supreme Court’s Murthy v. Missouri ruling, Doughty explained that “a court must make specific findings that a particular defendant pressured a particular platform to censor a particular topic before the platform suppressed a particular plaintiff’s speech on that topic.”
Kennedy was listed among the ‘Disinformation Dozen’ and was specifically targeted by the government for alleged COVID-19 misinformation, Judge Doughty noted in his ruling. He added that there is ‘not much dispute’ that Kennedy and his organization, Children’s Health Defense, were “specifically targeted by the White