…The deposition was part of Schmitt v. Biden, a lawsuit that accuses the federal government of improperly pushing private social media companies to restrict so-called misinformation relating to COVID-19. Jay Bhattacharya and Martin Kulldorff, professors of medicine at Stanford University and Harvard University, respectively, have claimed that social media platforms repeatedly muzzled their opposition to lockdowns,…

…The email threads are among dozens between the White House and tech platforms that Just the News received from the New Civil Liberties Alliance, which along with Missouri and Louisiana attorneys general is suing the feds for social media censorship. The plaintiffs have shared some communications publicly in The Wall Street Journal and on Twitter…

…A Facebook employee wrote an email later that day asking Biden administration COVID-19 czar Andrew Slavitt for “any messaging” that the White House might want the company to promote, looping in White House Director of Digital Strategy Rob Flaherty and Director of Strategic Communications and Engagement for the COVID-19 Response Team Courtney Rowe in a…

…The legal team behind the federal regulation challenge, Michael Cargill v. Merrick B. Garland, was New Civil Liberties Alliance…

…Will the Supreme Court take up that issue? The ATF declined to comment on Friday’s ruling, but Richard Samp of the New Civil Liberties Alliance, who won the 5th Circuit appeal for bump stock user Michael Cargill, said his side wouldn’t shy away from Supreme Court review, including on the question of whether Chevron applies…

…The plaintiff in the case, Texas gun shop owner and firearms instructor Michael Cargill, had surrendered two nonmechanical bump stocks after the new rule banned them. He was represented by the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights organization…