Judge Says Jen Psaki MUST Sit Through Deposition on Lawsuit of Collusion of Biden Administration and Big Tech Over Censorship

A federal judge ruled on Monday that former White House press secretary Jen Psaki must answer a subpoena and give a deposition in a lawsuit that says the Biden administration worked with Big Tech to censor speech.

Monday, Judge Terry Doughty of the Western District of Louisiana denied a request by Psaki’s lawyers to stop a court-ordered deposition. He said it is in the public’s interest to find out “determining whether First Amendment free speech rights have been suppressed.”

U.S. Magistrate Judge Ivan Davis sent the case back to Louisiana on Friday after Psaki tried to fight the deposition in a Virginia court, where she lives and where she would be deposed. Monday’s order came after Davis’s ruling. The Justice Department under Joe Biden helped her.

“Ms. Psaki’s effort to eliminate or delay her deposition in this action had failed because of the swift action of two judges in widely dispersed courts, one in Virginia and one in Louisiana, and by the implausibility of her reasons for not testifying as to Federal efforts to censure social media that made quick resolution possible,” John J. Vecchione, senior counsel for the New Civil Liberties Alliance (NCLA), said in a statement.

Eric Schmitt, the Republican Attorney General of Missouri, and Jeff Landry, the Republican Attorney General of Louisiana, filed the lawsuit in May. They accused high-ranking government officials of working with the big social media companies Meta, Twitter, and YouTube “under the guise of combating misinformation” to get more censorship.

In October, Judge Doughty said that Psaki and other high-ranking administration officials, like Dr. Anthony Fauci, should be deposed.

“After finding documentation of a collusive relationship between the Biden administration and social media companies to censor free speech, we immediately filed a motion to get these officials under oath,” Schmitt said in reaction to the Oct. 21 ruling. “It is high time we shine a light on this censorship enterprise and force these officials to come clean to the American people, and this ruling will allow us to do just that. We’ll keep pressing for the truth.”