Brandy Zadrozny: Alito argues in the dissent that the federal government’s coercive social media censorship campaign was just so sophisticated and its threats so subtle … it’s almost as if there never was a government conspiracy to censor people in the first place. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

Alito argues in the dissent that the federal government’s coercive social media censorship campaign was just so sophisticated and its threats so subtle … it’s almost as if there never was a government conspiracy to censor people in the first place. www.supremecourt.gov/opinions/23p...

That's the headline www.techpolicy.press/supreme-cour...

Supreme Court Rejects Conspiracy Theory Behind Murthy v Missouri | TechPolicy.Presswww.techpolicy.press The 6-3 ruling finds the plaintiffs failed to establish standing to sue, and that the Fifth Circuit erred in its assessment of the evidence.

i love it

Always good to know that your right-wing chain mail-forwarding uncle occupies 2-3 seats on the Supreme Court

Meanwhile, as long as you hand an official a sack of money with a big dollar sign on it *after* they enact your preferred policy, it's not bribery.

They didn't coerce because they want us to think they didn't coerce while we believed they were coercing. It's regrettable that the court didn't put an end to this.

What's funny is in the other decision today, Alito feels the opposite. Bribery is absolutely fine unless it is the most obvious and ham-fisted version.

it's a day ending in the letter y so of course Alito is saying dumb shit

That's not gonna fit on a flag

"Subtlety" is an almost perfect standard for "Conservatives" to apply as a test because it gives judges such wide discretion that case law is meaningless.

Alito is sounding pretty policy-driven, not textualist

It's funny how he takes essentially the opposite view in Snyder, also decided today. Sneakily re-casting a bribe as an after-the-fact "gratuity" makes it OK.

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