Top DOJ official says she is “unfamiliar” with landmark impeachment case against Biden admin

Kristen Clarke, the deputy attorney general for the Department of Justice's (DOJ) Civil Rights Division, said during a House Judiciary Committee hearing on Tuesday that she was “not familiar” with the landmark Missouri v. Biden case that alleges that the Biden administration violated Americans. ' First Amendment rights.

Republican Rep. Dan Bishop of North Carolina had pressed Clarke on the free speech ramifications of the Missouri v. Biden case, which was prey the Supreme Court in October, noting the Biden administration's alleged attempts to use social media companies to suppress online speech. Bishop asked Clarke if there was any criminal investigation “into the people responsible for this activity,” but Clarke indicated he was not aware of the case to begin with.

“Congressman, I'm not familiar with this litigation, but happy to take your question back,” Clarke said.

“Thank you, let me make sure I understand,” Bishop said. “You're not aware of the Missouri v. Biden litigation currently before the United States Supreme Court, is that correct?”

The DOJ Assistant AG for Civil Rights has ZERO knowledge of the Missouri v. Biden case, which will be heard by SCOTUS.

A US district court called the Biden administration's actions in the case “the most massive attack on free speech in the history of the United States.”

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— Rep. Dan Bishop (@RepDanBishop) December 5, 2023

“Unfortunately, I am not, Congressman,” Clarke replied.

In Missouri v. Biden, the Republican attorneys general of Missouri and Louisiana accused the Biden administration of colluding with tech companies to censor Americans' speech, outstanding more than 1,400 facts they said show officials engaged in censorship activities with social media platforms, which were uncovered through internal government documents they gained access to in the lawsuit.

Activities included Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) “switchboards” that allowed state and local election officials to flag misinformation and Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) officials ) flagging social media posts for removal, along with the F.B.I planting false information intended to convince the platforms to censor Hunter Biden's laptop story.

A lower district court governed in July, that the Biden administration likely violated the First Amendment and barred numerous government agencies, including the DOJ, from certain forms of communication with tech companies, though an appeals court eventually scaled back that measure judicial The Supreme Court is expected to rule on the case sometime next year, but Justice Samuel Alito raised the concerns in October that delaying a decision for several months would give the government the “green light” to censure.

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