Judge orders Psaki to testify on the Biden administration's role in social media censorship

The Blaze reports, "Former White House press secretary Jen Psaki lost a battle in court after a federal judge ordered her to testify about the White House's role in censorship on social media.

Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana issued the decision on Monday.

Doughty denied a motion by Psaki's attorney's asking to block a court order for her testimony and said there was public interest in 'determining whether First Amendment free speech rights have been suppressed...'

"The government is not allowed to do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly," via @theblaze https://t.co/5uVM5XMgqv

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Judge Doughty was the judge who first ruled on October 21 that Psaki and Dr. Anthony Fauci must testify for the lawsuit...

George Washington University law professor Jonathan Turley opined that there was evidence to support the contentions made in the lawsuit.

'The concern for free speech advocates is that there is a type of censorship by surrogate, that Democratic leaders and other groups have used social media to silence opposing voices, and you've had a number of people who’ve been banned on social media or had tweets taken down that have been proven correct,' Turley said.

'The government is not allowed to do indirectly what it is prohibited from doing directly,' the legal scholar said about possible collusion between the government and social media companies."

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