{"id":1965146,"date":"2023-07-05T21:46:02","date_gmt":"2023-07-06T01:46:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-says-it-will-appeal-ruling-blocking-agency-officials-from-communicating-with-social-media-companies\/"},"modified":"2023-07-05T21:47:07","modified_gmt":"2023-07-06T01:47:07","slug":"justice-department-says-it-will-appeal-ruling-blocking-agency-officials-from-communicating-with-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-says-it-will-appeal-ruling-blocking-agency-officials-from-communicating-with-social-media-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"DOJ to appeal ruling barring officials from contacting social media firms."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fjustice-department-says-it-will-appeal-ruling-blocking-agency-officials-from-communicating-with-social-media-companies%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1965146&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><h2>The Department of Justice Appeals Ruling Blocking Communication with Social Media Companies<\/h2>\n<p>The Department of Justice has announced its intention to appeal a recent ruling that prohibits agency officials from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/federal-judge-blocks-biden-officials-from-contacting-social-media-companies-report\/\" title=\"Federal judge stops Biden officials from contacting <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/ga-poll-watcher-it-expert-non-trump-supporter-affidavit-sudden-surge-of-20000-mail-in-votes-for-biden-in-early-hours-on-nov\/\" title=\"GA Poll Watcher, IT Expert, Non-Trump Supporter Affidavit: Sudden Surge of 20,000 Mail-In-Votes For Biden In Early Hours On Nov\">social media companies<\/a>: Report&#8221;>contacting social media companies<\/a>. This decision comes after U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction, preventing over 40 members of President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration from engaging with these platforms regarding &#8220;protected speech.&#8221; The injunction was a response to a lawsuit filed by attorneys general in Louisiana and Missouri, who claimed that the government had overstepped its boundaries in combatting COVID-19 misinformation during the pandemic. The Biden administration&#8217;s DOJ wasted no time in moving to appeal the ruling.<\/p>\n<h3>Bidenomics: Assessing the Stock Market under President Biden&#8217;s Leadership<\/h3>\n<p>The DOJ has filed a notice of appeal with the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans, as reported by Bloomberg. The agency argues that its communication with social media companies is necessary and responsible in order to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/kroger-closing-more-stores-due-to-seattles-mandated-hazard-pay-for-workers\/\" title=\"Kroger Closing More Stores Due To Seattle\u2019s Mandated \u2018Hazard Pay\u2019 For Workers\">protect public health<\/a>, safety, and security, especially during times of heightened risk. It cites the health threats posed by the COVID-19 pandemic and the need to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/al-gore-claims-election-audits-are-absolutely-nuts\/\" title=\"Al Gore claims election audits are \u2018absolutely nuts\u2019\">safeguard election integrity<\/a> as reasons for maintaining contact with these platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier on Wednesday, White House press secretary Karine Jean-Pierre had already announced that the DOJ was reviewing the ruling. She emphasized the critical responsibility of social media platforms to take action and consider the impact of their platforms.<\/p>\n<p>Judge Doughty&#8217;s ruling, detailed in a comprehensive 155-page opinion, was scathing in its criticism of the Biden administration. He described their actions towards social media companies as &#8220;the most massive attack against free speech in United States&#8217; history,&#8221; accusing them of disproportionately targeting conservative speech and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/justice-department-says-it-will-appeal-ruling-blocking-agency-officials-from-communicating-with-social-media-companies\/\" title=\"DOJ to appeal ruling barring officials from contacting social media firms.\">blatantly disregarding free speech rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\">Click here<\/a> for more news from the Washington Examiner.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Department of Justice plans to appeal a ruling that prohibits its officials from contacting social media companies. U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty of Louisiana granted a preliminary injunction, preventing over 40 officials from President Joe Biden&#8217;s administration from engaging with these platforms regarding &#8220;protected speech.&#8221; The appeal comes after the announcement by the Department of Justice.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1965147,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[538],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1965146","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-washington-examiner"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965146","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1965146"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1965146\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1965147"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1965146"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1965146"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1965146"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}