RFK Jr. Urges La. Judge to Issue Injunction Barring Officials From Censoring His Speech

U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty for Western Louisiana in Monroe retains “full authority,” under the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2018 decision in Hall v. Hall, to issue a ruling on Robert F. Kennedy Jr.’s pending motion for a preliminary injunction barring federal officials from conversing with social media platforms about censoring his protected speech, said Kennedy’s supplemental brief Friday (docket 3:23-cv-00381) in support of the motion for an injunction. Doughty previously stayed a decision on Kennedy’s motion for an injunction, pending SCOTUS resolution of the related case, Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411). But days after SCOTUS denied Kennedy’s motion to intervene in Murthy, Doughty said he was now “inclined” to rule on the injunction, requesting briefing on Dec. 13 about whether he had jurisdiction to do so with the related Murthy case still unresolved (see 2312150026). Kennedy urges Doughty to issue the injunction, said his brief. In granting the injunction, Doughty should indicate in his ruling that no motions for a stay or for reconsideration will be entertained, it said. He also asks that Doughty certify his ruling for immediate appeal, it said.