{"id":106140,"date":"2024-06-26T15:00:54","date_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:00:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-biden-admins-contact-with-social-media-companies\/"},"modified":"2024-06-26T15:00:54","modified_gmt":"2024-06-26T15:00:54","slug":"supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-biden-admins-contact-with-social-media-companies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-biden-admins-contact-with-social-media-companies\/","title":{"rendered":"Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden admin&#8217;s contact with social media companies"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<figure><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/s3.amazonaws.com\/syndication.abcaudio.com\/files\/2024-06-26\/GETTYRF_4622_SCOTUSBldg.jpg\" alt><figcaption>Walter Bibikow\/Getty Images<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>(WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration&#8217;s communication with social media companies about misinformation on their sites about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, stating the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to sue.<\/p>\n<p>The 6-3 opinion was authored by Justice Amy Coney Barrett. Justices Samuel Alito, Clarence Thomas and Neil Gorsuch dissented.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The plaintiffs, without any concrete link between their injuries and the defendants\u2019 conduct, ask us to conduct a review of the years-long communications between dozens of federal officials, across different agencies, with different social-media platforms, about different topics,&#8221; Barrett wrote. &#8220;This Court\u2019s standing doctrine prevents us from &#8216;exercis[ing such] general legal oversight&#8217; of the other branches of Government.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2024, ABC Audio. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Walter Bibikow\/Getty Images (WASHINGTON) &#8212; The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led challenge to the Biden administration&#8217;s communication with social media companies about misinformation on their sites about COVID-19 and the 2020 election, stating the plaintiffs did not have legal standing to sue. The 6-3 opinion was authored by<span class=\"more-link\"><a href=\"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/supreme-court-rejects-challenge-to-biden-admins-contact-with-social-media-companies\/\">Read More &rarr;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[156,31,2],"tags":[273,271,276,274,270,123,275,133,124,272,102,103],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106140"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=106140"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/106140\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=106140"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=106140"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lascrucestoday.com\/newstalklc\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=106140"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}