Texas Judge Sets April 19 Oral Argument in Censorship Case vs. State Department

U.S. District Judge Jeremy Kernodle for Eastern Texas in Tyler set in-person oral argument for April 19 on all pending motions in the government censorship case brought by Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton (R) and the Daily Wire and Federalist media outlets, said the judge’s signed order Monday (docket 6:23-cv-00609). The plaintiffs allege that the State Department, through its Global Engagement Center, “is actively intervening” to render “disfavored” press outlets unprofitable by funding the marketing and promotion of “censorship technology and private censorship enterprises to covertly suppress speech of a segment of the American press” (see 2312060043).