‘License to Play God’: Physician Group Files Brief Against Biden in COVID-19 Censorship Lawsuit

The Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS) filed an amicus brief against the Biden administration in a Supreme Court case, criticizing the government’s online censorship of COVID-19 information. The lawsuit, Murthy v. Missouri, alleges that the administration engaged in coercing social media platforms to suppress COVID-19 content. The American Medical Association (AMA) and other groups filed an amicus brief with the Supreme Court supporting the Biden administration. In its brief, AMA and its allies said that the federal government had a “compelling interest” in the case. They justified censorship by arguing that “combatting vaccine misinformation is, at its simplest, the government trying to prevent factually incorrect statements from costing people their lives.”...