Supreme Court rejects challenge to Biden combating social media misinformation [Video]

The Supreme Court on Wednesday rejected challenges to Biden administration officials’ communications with social media companies aimed at combating misinformation online.

The 6-3 decision does not address the First Amendment issues at the center of the cases and instead denies the challenge filed by two Republican attorneys general and private parties by finding they didn’t have legal standing to bring it.

“The plaintiffs, without any concrete link between their injuries and the defendants’ conduct, ask us to conduct a review of the years-long communications between dozens of federal officials, across different agencies, with different social-media platforms, about different conduct,” Justice Amy Coney Barrett wrote. “This Court’s standing doctrine prevents us from ‘exercising such general legal oversight’ of other branches of Government.”

In his dissenting opinion, conservative Justice Samuel Alito scolded his fellow justices for failing to decide the issue based on its First Amendment implications.

“The Court, however, shirks that …