Missouri and Louisiana sued the federal government over COVID-19 pandemic policies they claim violated the First Amendment rights of millions of Americans by colluding with Big Tech to censor anyone who dissented from the official line.
“In May of last year, Missouri filed a landmark lawsuit against dozens of officials in the federal government to stop the biggest violation of the First Amendment in the history of this nation,” Missouri’s Attorney General Andrew Bailey told a House Oversight and Accountability Select Subcommittee on the Coronavirus Pandemic on June 21.
Elizabeth Murrill, Louisiana’s Solicitor General, agreed. She presented written testimony to the committee about her 17-year-old son’s reaction to the COVID vaccine. The teen was required to be vaccinated to take a camp counselor job. Thirty-six hours after his second dose, he was rushed to the emergency room.
He spent four days in the pediatric ICU and underwent several medical procedures, including a 15-hour medicine infusion. He left with a diagnosis of myocarditis and $100,000 in medical bills. As Murrill researched treatment options, she said it became clear that some medicines were off-limits.
“The censorship pushed by the federal government against these off-label drugs, the physicians who promoted them, and any form of vaccine hesitancy was vast and far-reaching,” Murrill told the committee.