I predict that Roberts will work up a majority that will decide the case on an extremely narrow basis ensuring that no precedent can be taken from the case. Alito will write a sharp dissent or concurrence probably joined by at least Thomas and maybe Gorsuch that states that White House Pressure on social media companies to censor speech amounts to a first amendment violation inherently. Jackson will write a sharp either dissent or concurrence that holds that government pressure on social media company does not implicate the first amendment at all. I'm not clear whether the majority will go with the plaintiffs or defendants but whichever way it will be so narrow as to frustrate everybody. That's the Roberts way.
White House pressure on social media companies is an outrageous and shameful abuse of power and unequivocally antithetical to First Amendment protections of free speech. Why is SCOTUS so timid and impotent on this issue?
I predict that Roberts will work up a majority that will decide the case on an extremely narrow basis ensuring that no precedent can be taken from the case. Alito will write a sharp dissent or concurrence probably joined by at least Thomas and maybe Gorsuch that states that White House Pressure on social media companies to censor speech amounts to a first amendment violation inherently. Jackson will write a sharp either dissent or concurrence that holds that government pressure on social media company does not implicate the first amendment at all. I'm not clear whether the majority will go with the plaintiffs or defendants but whichever way it will be so narrow as to frustrate everybody. That's the Roberts way.
White House pressure on social media companies is an outrageous and shameful abuse of power and unequivocally antithetical to First Amendment protections of free speech. Why is SCOTUS so timid and impotent on this issue?