U.S. District Judge Terry Doughty ruled that unlike previous failed censorship lawsuits against social media companies by their users, the First Amendment and Administrative Procedure Act suit by the states and doctors is much better pleaded.

“Plaintiffs have alleged the full picture: a cohesive and coercive campaign by the Biden Administration and all of the Agency Defendants,” from the CDC and FDA to the FBI and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, “to threaten and persuade social media companies to more avidly censor so-called ‘misinformation,'” Doughty wrote.

He also cited “alleged various statements from many individuals that contained concrete threats both toward the general viewpoints espoused by plaintiffs, as well as the specific content of the private plaintiffs themselves.”

[Interesting. You can expect the Solicitor General and DoJ to appeal this ruling, but it will likely have to go through the Fifth Circuit, where skepticism of executive authority is reaching legendary proportions. — Ed]