"The easy path is to just avoid mixing it up with large corporations and NGO - particularly when the prospect of future political donations are factored in. It takes an Attorney General with considerable courage and commitment to avoid the easy road."
I started my efforts in presenting evidence as to the harms of the shots with trying to get a meeting with our Ohio Attorney General David Yost. I've sent him letters via email and US mail to which I haven't even received an acknowledgement let alone a response. And your statement above is why. He's a coward. Oh how I despise cowards.
I am making a correction on behalf of Missouri. It was AG Eric Schmitt, not Bailey. Although Schmitt was endeavoring at the time to become the Senator replacement for Roy Blunt, who failed to serve during his term, he found the time and made the effort against the Biden Admin with more than just this case. He also filed, as did Landry, a case against HHS's mandate that all health care workers must be vaccinated. I am happy to say Schmitt won the GOP primary against many others and then the election. Since January this year he joined Josh Hawley as a Missouri Senator.
Jul 5, 2023·edited Jul 5, 2023Liked by Robert W Malone MD, MS
I wanted to try to reframe my anger from the great Dr.Malone subscribers that is inside me as I watch these 100% non producing tyrants, that 100% believe themselves above the law. All of these participants should be put in handcuffs and leg irons and forcefully be put into musty jail cells with no charges for 2-3 years. Not unlike the treatment Joe Biden and his administration has inflicted on the January 6th political prisoners. Amazingly these Nazi want to be’s, like characters out of Joseph Goebbels Ministry of Enlightenment, (minister of propaganda), are using the Nazi playbook to a tea, while accusing all of their political opponents of doing the very disgusting anti American deeds that they themselves do. I know that you could take tens of thousands of Biden voters, show them the inhumane treatment of Biden’s political prisoners, and they would still say anyone but Trump (as Bezmenov said in the famous interview). I still hold out hope that while the ink is still drying on Hunters sweetheart conviction and probation deal, and a big bag of his cocaine stash was found in the west wing of the Whitehouse, maybe some brainwashed Biden supporters will finally see the horrendous state this corrupt taker has put our country in. It should be really interesting to see how Merrick Garland and his corrupt justice department sweeps this one under the white trash rug in the Whitehouse.
I have unfortunately concluded that a percentage of the population are so brainwashed that they will never open their eyes, especially here in Canada. They've had over 3 years to see the light and at this point, we have to move on without them. I seriously question whether they have anything useful to bring to the table in this battle anyway. Probably no great loss. The real thinkers and warriors are already on it and there are many. I was so heartened to have a good discussion with a group in their mid-30's on the weekend. They all get it!
I’m sure there is a massive investigation taking place about the bag of cocaine found in the west wing of the Whitehouse. Once they find out who called the fire department, they will surely be put in the gulag for interfering with Hunters personal property.
Haha! Yes, I'm sure every effort will be made to find out who it belongs to and I can predict that the Biden White House will conclude that it belongs to President Trump! The Democrats are SOOOOO predictable! It shocks me that so many still don't see their lies.
The capital police already said they would not try to lift fingerprints off the baggy. Also everything is picked up on surveillance cameras, so if you never see the footage of Hunter placing the bag of cocaine in the library you know it’s him.
I cannot wait for the names of the senior managers of this censorial juggernaut to finally become public and these thugs to become pariahs in their own surroundings. Everyone of these murderous liars should be infamous in every quarter of every society. For all time.
Like Vidkun Quisling, who cooperated with Nazi invaders in Denmark, the term Quisling indicates someone who betrays his own people to that of a tyranny.
So, to commit a "Wallensky" would indicate someone who consigns ones own people to death and horrific poison induced disease.
To be a "Faucci" is to think of oneself as God, to be puffed up, to excessively compensate for moral lacking.
To be a hunter, is to catch your own food. To be a 'Hunter' is to be a pedophile drug addict.
I am all thrilled by the many court victories, yet the powers-that-be don't seem to be alarmed at all, since they don't obey any court orders. Millions are being spent in lawsuits, lawsuits are being won... yet nothing changes. Some people believe they are above the law. How do we change that?
There must be trials, which we won't get until this current crop of politicians has been sent packing. The only way to get rid of corruption is to have real consequences.
Couple issues here. First -when attacked, the rule of the game is to appear as if it was just a house fly to be brushed away. Next - the legal process has a veritable multitude of steps, each taking ages. We should hope the 'Injuction' remains in place as this matter goes forward. This case, as with most cases, will be subject to appeals and here in particular including to the Supreme Court.
I need to expand on the 1st point. We have the Federal Government actions under attack. Big deal! Their support (mainly Ds) are counting on them to kill us. They must not flinch or concede in any way that their practices are threatened. Important political matter! Thus the fly strategy. In major matters a part of their playbook.
Stop the drug & Human trafficking. If the elite and those in power do not have access to their addictions they will not be able to function. Plus the lawsuits.
A very important part of changing things for the better, of the people taking control of the government, is for us to understand which voting system should be used for elections and to get it implemented asap. It’s not a terribly difficult problem but it requires some focus and I feel pretty sure I have it figured out and can explain in a way that people can understand fairly simply (the academic discipline of “election science” is over-complex and misses the mark, imo). Am looking for someone to help me write it out. jon@mevoting.com
Voting system guidelines will be updated on November 15th 2023, but few if any state election officials are updating their systems to meet them, with machines certified under the current “deprecated” standard remaining in use. Ph.D. scientists recently exposed a host of “critical vulnerabilities” in voting machines, but officials such as Brad Raffensperger (brother owns a company that operates in China), Georgia’s Secretary of State, are refusing to address them in time for 2024, telling experts with concerns “tough noogies”.
Thanks, Shelley, but what I meant by voting system is Single-Vote system vs. Ranked-Choice Voting vs. Approval Voting, etc. The choice of which voting system is used affects not only which candidate wins an election, but how many candidates the voters have to choose from and how manipulable elections are for well-funded entities seeking to “split the vote.” This is an explosive issue which can profoundly change things, imo, if we understand the importance and get it right.
As with this issue and so many others, the rules a state uses to get a ballot measure on a ballot for public voting can change the state forever. Our GOP legislature let us down this year again because it would not change the ballot measure rule from majority Senate Districts to House Districts. We have proven through analysis of prior ballot measure voting that rural Missouri does not count because all of the cities (black populations) comprise the Dem voters and they are all in the Senate Districts. This is how the Dem got their pet projects through before they lost control of MO just a decade ago. We have failed to change the rules ever since. Now they will get enough signatures to place both Abortion and Ranked-Choice on an upcoming ballot.
Ranked-Choice is a step up from the Single-Vote system, imo, but it’s highly flawed and we can do much better. To really put the government in the hands of the people we need to take a big step up, not a little one. You would think that with our advanced technology we’d have figured out the best way for a group of voters to select one candidate out of three, but we’re not there yet.
The current administration will slow walk this case through the appeals process to make sure this case does not reach the Supreme Court until 2025. Once again the cultural Marxists will have their thumb on the electoral scale.
Thanks so much, Dr Malone, for this interesting background on the Missouri-Louisiana lawsuit including your own role in its early stages. Let us hope that it takes us far in the direction you so eloquently describe in your conclusion, that it may bring remorse to the villains whose actions have so grievously injured so many citizens and our country itself, and that it may strike a serious blow against the goals of the sociopathic globalists. Honestly, have you seen online the photos of the luxury quarters WEF members and supporters plan to occupy after they have destroyed everyone else in the world? Unreal.
As with all litigation I’m afraid it’s going to take a while and there will be endless legal twists and turns. Yogi Berra and all that. Grateful for the courage of these AGs and their diligent and persevering staff, and to you for bringing facts forward and the encouraging words. I share your view of the importance of this lawsuit.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the present regime has been designing workarounds and public Justice shaming (which is an outrage and dangerous) for all SCOTUS decisions that might go against them. Student loans, Dobbs, Missouri vs Biden, affirmative action, and so on. After all, we are apparently in a post-constitutional era in which the regime enacts or supports clearly unconstitutional actions or rules, etc., and hopes to get these past SCOTUS. Thank goodness for President Trump's vital appointments to the courts at all levels, even if they aren't always correct in their decisions. I count the days left to the moment when we are hopefully unshackled from this vile tyranny. To have the desiccated husk in a second term or the present vacuous VP installed would be the final nail.
Missouri again played big role in the Student Loan case.
Held:
1.
At least Missouri has standing to challenge the Secretary’s program. Article III requires a plaintiff to have suffered an injury in fact—a concrete and imminent harm to a legally protected interest, like property or money—that is fairly traceable to the challenged conduct and likely to be redressed by the lawsuit.
First, outstanding article, as always, Dr. Malone - thank you!
Second, great call on your part to advocate for using the better-documented case of Professor Jay Battacharya. I imagine it would have been highly rewarding to have been on this suit yourself, but your suggestion to do otherwise was altruistic and obviously successful.
Third, I am thrilled by this ruling. It's long overdue and I am so grateful to all who pursued this cause and this case. I hope it is just the beginning of numerous cases like this.
Fourth, I cannot help but feel that the social media companies are escaping culpability here. They may have experienced persuasion by the govt entities to stifle conservative speech, but they seemed to revel in their power to do this. They have an established history of supporting those officials and leaders who advocated censorship. I believe they should also be sued accordingly.
Last, criminal charges need to stem from this, because countless lives were lost from the censoring of suggestions to use highly effect early therapeutics like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, with long track records of safety and efficacy . Still more lives were lost because of the censoring of valid concerns and questioning about the departure from scientific practices and the utter lack of data, completed clinical trials, and follow-up study of the "vaccines".
This ruling is a good start, but we have a long way to go to regain justice and accountability for the many crimes against humanity committed against the populations of the world.
Dr. Malone... And now for the coup de grâce. Consider how the Privacy Act forbids government from maintaining records on how individuals exercise 1A rights:
5 U.S.C. § 552a (e)(7)
(e) Each agency that maintains a system of records shall—
(7) maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity;
...
And that the Privacy Act includes a private right of action:
(g) (1) Civil remedies: Whenever any agency
...
(D) fails to comply with any other provision of this section, or any rule promulgated thereunder, in such a way as to have an adverse effect on an individual, the individual may bring a civil action against the agency, and the district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction in the matters under the provisions of this subsection.
...
And when the action is determined to be willful...
(4) In any suit brought under the provisions of subsection (g)(1)(C) or (D) of this section in which the court determines that the agency acted in a manner which was intentional or willful, the United States shall be liable to the individual in an amount equal to the sum of—
(A) actual damages sustained by the individual as a result of the refusal or failure, but in no case shall a person entitled to recovery receive less than the sum of $1,000; and
(B) the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court.
The injunction today speaks to the constitutional questions... We can put a bow on this by vindicating our privacy rights under 5 U.S.C. § 552a
The courts mostly find a way to protect the executive branch when operating under a D president. When under an R, they look for devious intentions like with the 2020 Census question on citizenship which Roberts swiftly rebuffed.
I know that the first amendment restricts the government from infringing on the freedom of speech, peoples right to assemble, freedom of religion etc. Obviously they trampled over their restrictions. What is the remedy or punishment for those who obviously trampled over Americans fist amendment rights?
Very good questions James. Can there be any remediation? Did the plaintiffs ask for something more than stop what you are doing? And punishment. Who would set it and what would be the precedent? Who would it apply to? Would the agencies involved have to select individuals to reprimand? I think it is becoming clear, the court system will say stop it and don’t do it again. End of story. AT some point we will find out.
Better phrased not so sarcastic question; we see the major penalties for someone who infringes on someones civil rights, should the penalty when 1st amendment rights are infringed on be any less?
I don’t think I am going to appreciate the outcome. Question is the government’s infringement on large portions of Americans 1st amendment rights less important than let’s say a Delaware senator infringing on a persons civil rights?
We already have the answer to that in spades by all levels of the court system these past three years and the winning argument for each and every infringement "a national emergency health risk." We lost the right to:
You’re right, all illegal with no precedence until now. It seems to be the most slippery of slopes it’s so hard for me to understand a tyrants desire to kill free speech free thought and all of the other unique exceptional freedoms the first amendment allows to us. It’s a punch right in the nose of America and our exceptionalism.
It speaks volumes that fighting a pernicious, government-led campaign of censorship and propaganda is labeled a "Republican issue." Are our friends in the Democrat Party aligning themselves with Stalinist tactics of curated news and government authorized speech? We always joked that the NY Times was "Pravda West." Now we see that the joke was on us. Thankfully some Republicans (where's Congress) are brave and resourceful enough to fight this lunacy. But it surely exposes as wanton hypocrites Democrats who claim they're patriotic advocates of the First Amendment.
"The easy path is to just avoid mixing it up with large corporations and NGO - particularly when the prospect of future political donations are factored in. It takes an Attorney General with considerable courage and commitment to avoid the easy road."
I started my efforts in presenting evidence as to the harms of the shots with trying to get a meeting with our Ohio Attorney General David Yost. I've sent him letters via email and US mail to which I haven't even received an acknowledgement let alone a response. And your statement above is why. He's a coward. Oh how I despise cowards.
Look up the meaning of "coward" and "politician" should be an example or synonym.
You may want to show your Ohio AG this...https://dailysceptic.org/2022/06/22/covid-vaccines-more-likely-to-put-you-in-hospital-than-keep-you-out-bmj-editors-analysis-of-pfizer-and-moderna-trial-data-finds/ It is from the British Medical Journal
Laura Kasner , you’re a Lion Warrior for the state of Ohio … God bless you !! 🙏
Thank you Bro. Affirming words like yours keep me from being discouraged. 😘❤️
🤗😘
Some good quotes here Laura Kasner https://www.goodreads.com/author/quotes/282885.Jordan_B_Peterson
Thanks Bro. Such immense respect for Jordan. One of my faves:
“And if you think tough men are dangerous, wait until you see what weak men are capable of.”
💥🎯
How sad.
I am making a correction on behalf of Missouri. It was AG Eric Schmitt, not Bailey. Although Schmitt was endeavoring at the time to become the Senator replacement for Roy Blunt, who failed to serve during his term, he found the time and made the effort against the Biden Admin with more than just this case. He also filed, as did Landry, a case against HHS's mandate that all health care workers must be vaccinated. I am happy to say Schmitt won the GOP primary against many others and then the election. Since January this year he joined Josh Hawley as a Missouri Senator.
Thank you for being a part of the beginnings of this lawsuit. Your contribution helped make a solid case.
I wanted to try to reframe my anger from the great Dr.Malone subscribers that is inside me as I watch these 100% non producing tyrants, that 100% believe themselves above the law. All of these participants should be put in handcuffs and leg irons and forcefully be put into musty jail cells with no charges for 2-3 years. Not unlike the treatment Joe Biden and his administration has inflicted on the January 6th political prisoners. Amazingly these Nazi want to be’s, like characters out of Joseph Goebbels Ministry of Enlightenment, (minister of propaganda), are using the Nazi playbook to a tea, while accusing all of their political opponents of doing the very disgusting anti American deeds that they themselves do. I know that you could take tens of thousands of Biden voters, show them the inhumane treatment of Biden’s political prisoners, and they would still say anyone but Trump (as Bezmenov said in the famous interview). I still hold out hope that while the ink is still drying on Hunters sweetheart conviction and probation deal, and a big bag of his cocaine stash was found in the west wing of the Whitehouse, maybe some brainwashed Biden supporters will finally see the horrendous state this corrupt taker has put our country in. It should be really interesting to see how Merrick Garland and his corrupt justice department sweeps this one under the white trash rug in the Whitehouse.
See how I reframed, that wasn’t to to bad.
J.Goodrich
I have unfortunately concluded that a percentage of the population are so brainwashed that they will never open their eyes, especially here in Canada. They've had over 3 years to see the light and at this point, we have to move on without them. I seriously question whether they have anything useful to bring to the table in this battle anyway. Probably no great loss. The real thinkers and warriors are already on it and there are many. I was so heartened to have a good discussion with a group in their mid-30's on the weekend. They all get it!
I’m sure there is a massive investigation taking place about the bag of cocaine found in the west wing of the Whitehouse. Once they find out who called the fire department, they will surely be put in the gulag for interfering with Hunters personal property.
Haha! Yes, I'm sure every effort will be made to find out who it belongs to and I can predict that the Biden White House will conclude that it belongs to President Trump! The Democrats are SOOOOO predictable! It shocks me that so many still don't see their lies.
The capital police already said they would not try to lift fingerprints off the baggy. Also everything is picked up on surveillance cameras, so if you never see the footage of Hunter placing the bag of cocaine in the library you know it’s him.
I cannot wait for the names of the senior managers of this censorial juggernaut to finally become public and these thugs to become pariahs in their own surroundings. Everyone of these murderous liars should be infamous in every quarter of every society. For all time.
Like Vidkun Quisling, who cooperated with Nazi invaders in Denmark, the term Quisling indicates someone who betrays his own people to that of a tyranny.
So, to commit a "Wallensky" would indicate someone who consigns ones own people to death and horrific poison induced disease.
To be a "Faucci" is to think of oneself as God, to be puffed up, to excessively compensate for moral lacking.
To be a hunter, is to catch your own food. To be a 'Hunter' is to be a pedophile drug addict.
And so on.
FYI -- Renown US lawyer, Robert Barnes, reads and comments Declaration of Independence:
https://vivabarneslaw.locals.com/upost/4242276/barnes-law-school-declaration-of-independence
PS: Administrative ( == “Deep”) State ( == unelected bureaucracy) consider itself independent and superior to laws and US Constitution
I am all thrilled by the many court victories, yet the powers-that-be don't seem to be alarmed at all, since they don't obey any court orders. Millions are being spent in lawsuits, lawsuits are being won... yet nothing changes. Some people believe they are above the law. How do we change that?
There must be trials, which we won't get until this current crop of politicians has been sent packing. The only way to get rid of corruption is to have real consequences.
Couple issues here. First -when attacked, the rule of the game is to appear as if it was just a house fly to be brushed away. Next - the legal process has a veritable multitude of steps, each taking ages. We should hope the 'Injuction' remains in place as this matter goes forward. This case, as with most cases, will be subject to appeals and here in particular including to the Supreme Court.
I need to expand on the 1st point. We have the Federal Government actions under attack. Big deal! Their support (mainly Ds) are counting on them to kill us. They must not flinch or concede in any way that their practices are threatened. Important political matter! Thus the fly strategy. In major matters a part of their playbook.
Changing those people may require The Lone Ranger and a Silver Bullet.
Agree sadly.
Stop the drug & Human trafficking. If the elite and those in power do not have access to their addictions they will not be able to function. Plus the lawsuits.
A very important part of changing things for the better, of the people taking control of the government, is for us to understand which voting system should be used for elections and to get it implemented asap. It’s not a terribly difficult problem but it requires some focus and I feel pretty sure I have it figured out and can explain in a way that people can understand fairly simply (the academic discipline of “election science” is over-complex and misses the mark, imo). Am looking for someone to help me write it out. jon@mevoting.com
Voting system guidelines will be updated on November 15th 2023, but few if any state election officials are updating their systems to meet them, with machines certified under the current “deprecated” standard remaining in use. Ph.D. scientists recently exposed a host of “critical vulnerabilities” in voting machines, but officials such as Brad Raffensperger (brother owns a company that operates in China), Georgia’s Secretary of State, are refusing to address them in time for 2024, telling experts with concerns “tough noogies”.
https://thenationalpulse.com/2023/07/05/americas-2024-voting-machines-wont-be-federally-certified/
Waiting to hear "they" are handing out voter registrations to newborns along with social security cards and party memberships.
Thanks, Shelley, but what I meant by voting system is Single-Vote system vs. Ranked-Choice Voting vs. Approval Voting, etc. The choice of which voting system is used affects not only which candidate wins an election, but how many candidates the voters have to choose from and how manipulable elections are for well-funded entities seeking to “split the vote.” This is an explosive issue which can profoundly change things, imo, if we understand the importance and get it right.
As with this issue and so many others, the rules a state uses to get a ballot measure on a ballot for public voting can change the state forever. Our GOP legislature let us down this year again because it would not change the ballot measure rule from majority Senate Districts to House Districts. We have proven through analysis of prior ballot measure voting that rural Missouri does not count because all of the cities (black populations) comprise the Dem voters and they are all in the Senate Districts. This is how the Dem got their pet projects through before they lost control of MO just a decade ago. We have failed to change the rules ever since. Now they will get enough signatures to place both Abortion and Ranked-Choice on an upcoming ballot.
Ranked-Choice is a step up from the Single-Vote system, imo, but it’s highly flawed and we can do much better. To really put the government in the hands of the people we need to take a big step up, not a little one. You would think that with our advanced technology we’d have figured out the best way for a group of voters to select one candidate out of three, but we’re not there yet.
Ranked-Choice is no choice at all for any voter. 4th and 5th fiddle stake center stage. No way.
The people have not selected a candidate in 200 years. Those with money select them and thus we get to pick from their list.
Pitchforks and guillotines is how.
The current administration will slow walk this case through the appeals process to make sure this case does not reach the Supreme Court until 2025. Once again the cultural Marxists will have their thumb on the electoral scale.
Thanks for continuing to fight the good fight.
Thanks so much, Dr Malone, for this interesting background on the Missouri-Louisiana lawsuit including your own role in its early stages. Let us hope that it takes us far in the direction you so eloquently describe in your conclusion, that it may bring remorse to the villains whose actions have so grievously injured so many citizens and our country itself, and that it may strike a serious blow against the goals of the sociopathic globalists. Honestly, have you seen online the photos of the luxury quarters WEF members and supporters plan to occupy after they have destroyed everyone else in the world? Unreal.
As with all litigation I’m afraid it’s going to take a while and there will be endless legal twists and turns. Yogi Berra and all that. Grateful for the courage of these AGs and their diligent and persevering staff, and to you for bringing facts forward and the encouraging words. I share your view of the importance of this lawsuit.
About that bringing remorse - only for having got caught in the act.
You can bet your bottom dollar that the present regime has been designing workarounds and public Justice shaming (which is an outrage and dangerous) for all SCOTUS decisions that might go against them. Student loans, Dobbs, Missouri vs Biden, affirmative action, and so on. After all, we are apparently in a post-constitutional era in which the regime enacts or supports clearly unconstitutional actions or rules, etc., and hopes to get these past SCOTUS. Thank goodness for President Trump's vital appointments to the courts at all levels, even if they aren't always correct in their decisions. I count the days left to the moment when we are hopefully unshackled from this vile tyranny. To have the desiccated husk in a second term or the present vacuous VP installed would be the final nail.
Missouri again played big role in the Student Loan case.
Held:
1.
At least Missouri has standing to challenge the Secretary’s program. Article III requires a plaintiff to have suffered an injury in fact—a concrete and imminent harm to a legally protected interest, like property or money—that is fairly traceable to the challenged conduct and likely to be redressed by the lawsuit.
A glimmer of hope-blessings to all the brave!
First, outstanding article, as always, Dr. Malone - thank you!
Second, great call on your part to advocate for using the better-documented case of Professor Jay Battacharya. I imagine it would have been highly rewarding to have been on this suit yourself, but your suggestion to do otherwise was altruistic and obviously successful.
Third, I am thrilled by this ruling. It's long overdue and I am so grateful to all who pursued this cause and this case. I hope it is just the beginning of numerous cases like this.
Fourth, I cannot help but feel that the social media companies are escaping culpability here. They may have experienced persuasion by the govt entities to stifle conservative speech, but they seemed to revel in their power to do this. They have an established history of supporting those officials and leaders who advocated censorship. I believe they should also be sued accordingly.
Last, criminal charges need to stem from this, because countless lives were lost from the censoring of suggestions to use highly effect early therapeutics like Ivermectin and Hydroxychloroquine, with long track records of safety and efficacy . Still more lives were lost because of the censoring of valid concerns and questioning about the departure from scientific practices and the utter lack of data, completed clinical trials, and follow-up study of the "vaccines".
This ruling is a good start, but we have a long way to go to regain justice and accountability for the many crimes against humanity committed against the populations of the world.
"To learn the truth, learn to circumvent censorship." - Ned B.
Dr. Malone... And now for the coup de grâce. Consider how the Privacy Act forbids government from maintaining records on how individuals exercise 1A rights:
5 U.S.C. § 552a (e)(7)
(e) Each agency that maintains a system of records shall—
(7) maintain no record describing how any individual exercises rights guaranteed by the First Amendment unless expressly authorized by statute or by the individual about whom the record is maintained or unless pertinent to and within the scope of an authorized law enforcement activity;
...
And that the Privacy Act includes a private right of action:
(g) (1) Civil remedies: Whenever any agency
...
(D) fails to comply with any other provision of this section, or any rule promulgated thereunder, in such a way as to have an adverse effect on an individual, the individual may bring a civil action against the agency, and the district courts of the United States shall have jurisdiction in the matters under the provisions of this subsection.
...
And when the action is determined to be willful...
(4) In any suit brought under the provisions of subsection (g)(1)(C) or (D) of this section in which the court determines that the agency acted in a manner which was intentional or willful, the United States shall be liable to the individual in an amount equal to the sum of—
(A) actual damages sustained by the individual as a result of the refusal or failure, but in no case shall a person entitled to recovery receive less than the sum of $1,000; and
(B) the costs of the action together with reasonable attorney fees as determined by the court.
The injunction today speaks to the constitutional questions... We can put a bow on this by vindicating our privacy rights under 5 U.S.C. § 552a
The courts mostly find a way to protect the executive branch when operating under a D president. When under an R, they look for devious intentions like with the 2020 Census question on citizenship which Roberts swiftly rebuffed.
I know that the first amendment restricts the government from infringing on the freedom of speech, peoples right to assemble, freedom of religion etc. Obviously they trampled over their restrictions. What is the remedy or punishment for those who obviously trampled over Americans fist amendment rights?
Very good questions James. Can there be any remediation? Did the plaintiffs ask for something more than stop what you are doing? And punishment. Who would set it and what would be the precedent? Who would it apply to? Would the agencies involved have to select individuals to reprimand? I think it is becoming clear, the court system will say stop it and don’t do it again. End of story. AT some point we will find out.
Better phrased not so sarcastic question; we see the major penalties for someone who infringes on someones civil rights, should the penalty when 1st amendment rights are infringed on be any less?
I don’t think I am going to appreciate the outcome. Question is the government’s infringement on large portions of Americans 1st amendment rights less important than let’s say a Delaware senator infringing on a persons civil rights?
We already have the answer to that in spades by all levels of the court system these past three years and the winning argument for each and every infringement "a national emergency health risk." We lost the right to:
o associate
o practice faith
o wed
o bury
o see loved ones
o work
o play
o move
o learn
o disagree
o purchase
o speak
o informed consent
You’re right, all illegal with no precedence until now. It seems to be the most slippery of slopes it’s so hard for me to understand a tyrants desire to kill free speech free thought and all of the other unique exceptional freedoms the first amendment allows to us. It’s a punch right in the nose of America and our exceptionalism.
It speaks volumes that fighting a pernicious, government-led campaign of censorship and propaganda is labeled a "Republican issue." Are our friends in the Democrat Party aligning themselves with Stalinist tactics of curated news and government authorized speech? We always joked that the NY Times was "Pravda West." Now we see that the joke was on us. Thankfully some Republicans (where's Congress) are brave and resourceful enough to fight this lunacy. But it surely exposes as wanton hypocrites Democrats who claim they're patriotic advocates of the First Amendment.
Only the one rewritten by progressives (or fed. judges).
One brick at a time!!!