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BumRushDaShow

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Tue Jul 9, 2024, 11:13 AM Jul 2024

Joe Biden Moves Against RFK Jr. After Supreme Court Win [View all]

Source: Newsweek

Published Jul 09, 2024 at 8:31 AM EDT


The Biden administration is seeking to remove Robert F. Kennedy Jr.'s anti-vaccine statements from social media after a major win in the Supreme Court.

In February, Kennedy—who is running as an independent against President Joe Biden in the 2024 presidential election—obtained an injunction in Louisiana preventing the Biden administration and social media companies from removing his statements opposing COVID-19 vaccines.

The Louisiana case, Kennedy v. Biden, is supported by conservative groups and several Republican states, which argued that the federal government should not control freedom of expression. On June 26, the Supreme Court ruled in a separate case, Murthy v. Missouri, that states and individual plaintiffs don't have standing to sue administration officials over social media platforms' COVID-19 rules.

The Biden administration is now taking the victory in Murthy and applying it to the Kennedy case in Louisiana, which the administration says is almost identical in facts and circumstances.

Read more: https://www.newsweek.com/joe-biden-rfk-jr-vaccination-posts-court-injunction-presidential-election-1922704

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