Twitter Users' Censorship Cert Petition Is Distributed for Justices’ May 30 Conference

The U.S. Supreme Court distributed for the justices’ May 30 conference the cert petition of three former Twitter users who are seeking review of the 6th U.S. Circuit Appeals Court’s judgment affirming that they lacked Article III standing to bring First Amendment social media censorship claims against the Department of Health and Human Services (see 2403270011), said a text-only docket entry Tuesday (docket 23-1062). The Twitter accounts of petitioners Mark Changizi, Michael Senger and Daniel Kotzin were terminated or suspended by the platform for publishing COVID-19 tweets that were deemed to have run counter to HHS’ pandemic public information policy. They allege the same First Amendment government censorship claims as the five individual plaintiffs in Murthy v. Missouri (docket 23-411) who seek to affirm the 5th Circuit's social media censorship injunction against officials from the White House and four federal agencies.