… In the lawsuit, which the plaintiffs are pursuing with the help of the conservative New Civil Liberties Alliance, the State Department pursued “one of the most audacious, manipulative, secretive, and gravest abuses of power and infringements of First Amendment rights by the federal government in American history.” …

… The Federalist and the Daily Wire — a pair of self-described “right of center media” groups — jointly filed the complaint with Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton and the New Civil Liberties Alliance, a nonprofit civil rights group, in the US Eastern District of Texas on Wednesday…. A representative for the Federalist and the…

The State Department is facing a lawsuit for funding a “censorship regime” built by technologies that blacklist conservative media outlets. In a suit filed by the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), the State Department is accused of “funding and promotion of censorship technologies and private censorship enterprises that blacklist” conservative news sites The Federalist and The Daily…

… “This agency will not get away with their illegal campaign to silence citizens and publications they disagree with,” Paxton said in a statement. He filed the lawsuit alongside lawyers at the conservative New Civil Liberties Alliance, which is representing The Daily Wire and The Federalist…

A pair of conservative media outlets are accusing the State Department in a new lawsuit of funding an unconstitutional “censorship scheme” suppressing voices on the Right, according to a complaint. The lawsuit, which counts Texas as a plaintiff, was filed Tuesday by the New Civil Liberties Alliance on behalf of the Daily Wire and the Federalist in the Lone Star State’s U.S. District Court…

… “The court focused almost exclusively on the jury trial question, with the justices plumbing different approaches to the difficult line-drawing questions,” said Peggy Little, an attorney at New Civil Liberties Alliance. “There’s a decent chance the 5th Circuit could be narrowly affirmed on jury trial rights where the claim maps the elements of common…