The Most Important Free Speech Case You've Never Heard of Could Kill the Censorship Regime
Plus how Deep State rot festered after Russiagate receded
The ‘Wrongthink’ case against Biden could help end federal policing of public speech
It’s not every day that a federal judge asks attorneys representing the president if they’ve read their “1984.”
Yet Judge Terry A. Doughty did just that last month, invoking the dystopian novel in questioning lawyers for President Biden, Dr. Anthony Fauci, Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas and other officials about their Orwellian conduct.
These are the defendants in perhaps the most consequential First Amendment case you’ve never heard of.
That case, Missouri v. Biden, has exposed arguably the most extensive mass-surveillance and mass-censorship regime in the history of mankind.
In so doing, it has set in motion events that could lead to that regime’s collapse.
I’ve got the story in today’s New York Post, which you can read in full here.
Separately, for a primer on this subject, check out my “How DHS Went From Fighting Jihadists to Targeting Your Tweets” post over at the Doc Emet blog.
Deep State Rot and Corruption Festers with Russiagate Unpunished and Receding
As special counsel John Durham’s report demonstrated in stark detail, our national security and law enforcement apparatus has grown hyper-politicized and been weaponized against its perceived opponents.
Since virtually none of the powerful perpetrators of Russiagate—one of the greatest and gravest scandals in American history—have been held to account for it, including by the special counsel himself, that the corruption would fester would seem an inevitability.
And indeed, it has, with the Deep State targeting not just a president it feared and loathed but now also the half-the-country-plus whose views it disfavors as potential domestic terrorists.
It has gotten to the point that talk of pervasive institutional rot and corruption within the Department of Justice and FBI once limited to coffee shop conspiracists and street corner crackpots has grown, more than justifiably, commonplace among members of Congress.
Some recent developments illustrate the extent to which these institutions have self-immolated, to our great detriment.
I review the outrages revealed over the last month—prior to Special Counsel Jack Smith’s handing down of the rubicon-crossing indictment of Donald Trump, unsealed yesterday—in a new piece at the Epoch Times.