Justice Samuel Alito Jr. during a formal group photograph at the Supreme Court in Washington, D.C. (Eric Lee/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
"Our democratic form of government is undermined if government officials prevent a candidate for high office from communicating with voters, and such efforts are especially dangerous when the officials engaging in such conduct are answerable to a rival candidate," Alito said in the dissent.
"I would allow him to intervene to ensure that we can reach the merits of respondents’ claims and to prevent the irreparable loss of his First Amendment rights," Alito added.
"Because Mr. Kennedy’s arguments on the merits are essentially the same as respondents’, allowing intervention would not significantly affect petitioners’ burden with regard to that issue," Alito wrote. "But the denial of intervention is likely to prevent Mr. Kennedy from vindicating the rights he claims until the spring of 2024 and perhaps as late as June of that year. And by that time, several months of the presidential campaign will have passed."
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Meta and Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg acknowledged in a video posted on social media that they had "gone too far" and allowed for too much political bias from outside fact-checkers. (Joe Rogan Experience)
Zuckerberg announced earlier this month that Meta would end its previous content restrictions used on Facebook and Instagram — which were put into place after the 2016 elections — acknowledging in a video posted on social media that they had "gone too far" and allowed for too much political bias from outside fact-checkers.
"We’ve reached a point where it’s just too many mistakes and too much censorship," Zuckerberg said in the announcement.
"The recent elections also feel like a cultural tipping point toward once again prioritizing speech. So we are going to get back to our roots, focus on reducing mistakes, simplifying our policies, and restoring free expression on our platforms."
Meta will now replace that system with a "Community Notes"-style program, similar to the approach taken by social media platform X, he said. X is owned by Elon Musk, the co-director of the planned Department of Government Efficiency.
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That news was praised by Mollie Hemingway, the editor-in-chief of The Federalist, who noted on X that the decision from Zuckerberg "vindicated" Alito's dissent. "Kind of crazy how Zuck was like ‘what they did had to be illegal’ but majority on Court was like 'I mean, who can know?'" Hemingway said of the Supreme Court's decision not to take up the case.
Breanne Deppisch is a politics reporter for Fox News Digital covering the 2024 election and other national news.
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