Jim Hoft Wins Missouri v. Biden Case at U.S. Supreme Court

After years of litigation in which the Gateway Pundit founder and publisher Jim Hoft was the lead Plaintiff, Missouri v. Biden, the case experts said was “the most important free speech case in recent history,” has settled between the government and Hoft and the other plaintiffs.

The government admits that “Unrelenting pressure from certain government officials likely had the intended result of suppressing millions of protected free speech postings by American citizens.”

The important concession and agreement, secured through years of expensive and time-intensive litigation by the Gateway Pundit, is this hard-won agreement, as stated in the document:

“The Government cannot take actions, formal or informal, directly or indirectly… to threaten Social-Media Companies with some form of punishment… unless they remove, delete, suppress, or reduce… content containing protected free speech.”

For years, legacy mainstream media denied this was happening, and have refused to report on this case.

Now in court filings, it is not only confirmed, but this critical victory for free speech has been won.

Some of the terms of the ‘consent decree’ are confidential, such as the amount of money that the government is required to pay Jim Hoft in fees and damages, but the essential text says that the Biden censorship complex has been stopped in its tracks.

For years, during the Biden regime, a series of censorship offices were set up in many federal agencies. Even the Commerce Department and the Census Bureau had ‘disinformation’ offices which could ‘flag’ specific posts, comments, users, and the goons at the FBI would then pressure and coerce social media companies to delete the posts, deplatform the comments, and delete the specific users.

The Biden regime was found to be censoring even truthful comments online.

The people targeted were even small accounts, including individual citizens who were simply expressing their private political opinions online.

The size and scope of the Biden censorship complex was enormous, affecting tens of millions of accounts online. The federal government had constructed a complex array of entities in order to coerce and threaten social media companies to cooperate in silencing dissident political speech.

In just one request for takedowns, the FBI demanded Twitter delete 929,000 Tweets they claimed were ‘foreign’ speech they disliked.

In another instance, the FBI demanded the deletion of a pro-Second Amendment post ‘liked’ by nearly 100,000 users on Facebook.

The government tried to create a ‘real-time’ monitoring and flagging of content it disliked, which, at its height, was flagging 2.5% of all Tweets on Twitter as ‘potential misinformation.’

The FBI was hosting weekly calls with big tech companies prior to the contested and notorious 2020 election, where they were demanding specific stories and comments be censored.

A big part of the reason the government is likely settling this case, in addition to the country’s new leadership from President Trump, is that the case was set to start discovery so that the parties could get a better view of the size and scope of the censorship systems.

The case involved depositions of key agents of the Biden censorship regime, including Anthony Fauci. Fauci was characteristically dishonest in his deposition.

What we do know about the censorship regime is that it extended far and wide, including censorship involving:

• Hunter Biden Laptop from Hell
• 2020 Election Integrity issues and documented cases of voter fraud
• COVID-19, including its lab-based origin in China
• Vaccine skepticism

Part of what strengthened the case was the offices of the Attorneys General in both Missouri and Louisiana, which sued alongside Jim Hoft to protest the federal government’s violation of its citizens’ free speech rights.

When asked in Congress, the Biden Department of Justice literally pleaded ignorance about the ongoing Supreme Court case.

The Missouri v. Biden case is so Orwellian that it emerged during discovery that the government considers the thoughts of its citizens as ‘critical infrastructure’ so that the government can then justify doing almost anything to combat ‘misinformation’ and ‘disinformation.’

In 2024, Facebook owner Mark Zuckerberg admitted that the Biden censorship complex existed, that it was wrong, and he had profound regrets about participating with the government to suppress dissident speech on his social media platform.

A variety of groups on the right filed ‘amici’ briefs in the case supporting Jim Hoft and the Gateway Pundit, including Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., prior to becoming the Secretary for Health and Human Services. Every left-wing ‘free speech’ group sat the case out and did not file into the case.

The case went to the Supreme Court twice, which involved important wins and losses at the trial court and appellate level. The original case was filed in the Western District of Louisiana and was heard before Judge Terry A. Doughty.

The first filing to the Supreme Court involved questions as to whether a trial court judge could prevent the federal government from continuing to censor speech while the case was pending. The 6-3 decision by Amy Coney-Barrett in Murthy v. Missouri allowed the government to continue suppressing free speech while the case continued at the trial court level. The Gateway Pundit then discovered that one of Coney-Barrett’s clerks was connected to the anti-free speech entities, colleges, and donors at issue in the litigation in a significant conflict of interest.

Missouri and Louisiana continued to fight the censorship in court until the Department of Justice, on behalf of the government, voluntarily entered into a consent decree. In that consent decree, the government agreed not to participate in mass censorship of Americans.

Thank you to Senator Eric Schmitt (R-MO) and Governor Jeff Landry (R-LA) for launching this investigation.

Thank you to Attorney General Catherine Hanaway (R-MO) and Attorney General Liz Murrill for continuing the case.

And, thanks to fellow plaintiffs, Aaron D. Kheriaty, MD, Dr. Jay Bhattacharya, and Jill Hines, who had the courage to speak out about this injustice.

(Editor’s Note: Jim Hoft is the founder and editor of The Gateway Pundit, one of the top conservative news outlets in America. Jim was awarded the Reed Irvine Accuracy in Media Award in 2013 and is the proud recipient of the Breitbart Award for Excellence in Online Journalism from the Americans for Prosperity Foundation in May 2016. In 2023, The Gateway Pundit received the Most Trusted Print Media Award at the American Liberty Awards. You can email Jim Hoft here, and read more of Jim Hoft’s articles here.)