Justice Alito really wanted to hear what RFK Jr. had to say in social media censorship case to ‘prevent the irreparable loss of his First Amendment rights’

Robert F. Kennedy Jr., Samuel Alito

Robert F. Kennedy Jr. speaks during a campaign event, Tuesday, Nov. 14, 2023, in Columbia, S.C. (AP Photo/Meg Kinnard), Justice Samuel pictured on Oct. 7, 2022 (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File)

Justice Samuel Alito on Monday stood alone in writing that Kennedy family scion Robert F. Kennedy Jr. should have been allowed to intervene in a major Supreme Court social media censorship case.

As Law&Crime reported in September, Biden administration lawyers asked SCOTUS to weigh in after the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit ruled in Missouri v. Biden that officials in the FBI, CDC, the White House, and the COVID-19 Response Team likely violated the First Amendment by “coercing and significantly encouraging ‘social-media platforms to censor disfavored [speech].””

While the government has argued in Murthy v. Missouri that the Fifth Circuit wrongly interpreted efforts to persuade platforms to remove misinformation and disinformation as coercive or intimidating demands, Kennedy, an independent candidate for president separately suing in federal court, filed an amicus brief in September framing the issue in starkly different terms.

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