our investigation and I yield back
gentleman yields back the chair now
recognizes Mr Johnson from Louisiana I'm
so grateful for that segue from Mr
Golden because we're about to talk about
hard evidence here it's really ironic
this hearing is covering the left
censorship of opposing viewpoints and
you've all seen it on display all day
long they've been doing exactly that but
they've been trying to bully and defame
our Witnesses and and try to cover up
their opinions they they actually began
the hearing with emotion to prevent them
from testifying you can't make this
stuff up it's on Broad display for
everybody they did the same thing
yesterday in the hearing with the IRS
whistleblowers you know why because the
Democrats are panicked right now they're
panicked because it's impossible to
cover up the inescapable conclusions of
the last few weeks let me give you two
of them first one
the hard evidence Mr Goldman and
everybody else now proves that the Biden
family is hopelessly corrupt and has
apparently engaged in a long pattern of
extortion bribery influence peddling and
tax fraud and staggering abuses of power
and number two
we're highlighting here today that we
now know that a growing list of the most
important executive branch agencies of
the bite Administration are in on it
they've also been corrupted they've been
weaponized to help cover all this up the
first family's crimes when we summarize
all this stuff it sounds like a premise
of a dystopian novel or something but
it's actually happening right now on our
watch this is not conspiracy theories
this is evidence our hearing today is to
put a spotlight on one more of these
incredible Avenues as unprecedented
corruption and government cover-up and
here again a federal court has just
affirmed all that hard evidence it
proves that the White House the
Department of Justice and the FBI among
other agencies threatened and coerced
the social media platforms to censor and
suppress disfavored viewpoints and
conservatives social media posts online
I'm grateful we have with us today two
individuals Mr Kennedy and Miss Harris
who are directly impacted by that
censorship and third Mr Sauer who we're
about to speak with serving as League
counsel in the landmark lawsuit against
the federal government on this you let's
talk facts the American people are not
aware of the magnitude of this case Mr
Sauer and its profound implications
because most of the mainstream media is
in on it too and they're trying to bury
the story in brief in May of last year
the Attorneys General of my state
Louisiana and the state of Missouri
filed suit in U.S District Court of the
Western District of Louisiana this
blatant censorship they went after the
blatant censorship by the Biden White
House and nine of its federal agencies
two weeks ago on Independence Day The
District Court issued a truly
extraordinary 155-page Court opinion a
rule in granting the plaintiff's request
for preliminary injunction Mr sour your
lead counsel in that litigation you
reference some in your opening statement
but let's do it again here because they
don't seem to be paying attention and
you give a summary again of some of the
key components of that opinion and the
basis for it I know you mentioned there
were 82 pages of detailed factual
findings right that is correct 82 Pages
577 citations of the record evidence
that evidence is drawn from about 20 000
pages of the government's own
Communications with social media
platforms and six full-length
depositions of senior federal officials
with first-hand knowledge of federal
censorship practices it's absolutely
staggering and now they've tried to bury
this and say well the fifth circuit
entered a temporary administrative stay
they granted a an expedited briefing an
oral argument however for August 10th
what what's the impact of that that say
isn't that routine practice in the fifth
circuit that's a direct quote from the
recent Fifth circumstitution and Ray
Abbott which is cited in my written
testimony it's legally incorrect clearly
legally and correct to describe them as
vacating the injunction which has
happened multiple times today they
either don't know the law or I don't
know they're trying to obscure the facts
that's a theme around here the White
House and the fellow Democrats disputed
almost none of the factual findings in
the court isn't that right so far we've
had two emergency stay motions from the
Department of Justice one in the
district court one in the court of
appeals and what really struck me in
Reading those is they just don't dispute
those age you pages of factual findings
almost none of them are directly
disputed and what they've filed So Far
So at the very beginning of this lengthy
opinion the court explains the
Staggering scope of the government
censorship uncovered here at page 2 the
court explains quote if the allegations
made by the plaintiffs are true the
present case arguably involves the most
massive attack on Free Speech in the
United States history the court called
it dystopian orwellian how broad has
this attack been how many Americans have
been censored there's judicial findings
again and again in the opinion of
millions millions of American voices
silenced by these efforts and it had
profound impacts we know we just saw the
poll in the in the data that's been
entered here facts not conjecture that
it probably changed the outcome of the
election the court noted that they
suppressed among other topics the hunter
Biden laptop story and the court noted
not you not me not Republicans that
millions of Americans were not exposed
to that story had they been we know they
might have voted differently we'll never
be able to unwind history but wow I mean
the profound impacts what are some of
the other categories of speech that the
government suppressed with its
unconstitutional scheme well the court
made findings on that I just quote them
opposition to covid-19 vaccines
opposition to covid-19 masking and
lockdowns the lab League theory of
covid-19 opposition to President Biden's
policies statements at the under buying
laptop story was true oppositions to the
policies of government officials in
power all were suppressed and that's
just some examples many other examples
in the in the Court's findings and in
the discovery in the case I so wish I
weren't out of time I yield back the
gentleman yields back the chair now
recognizes Mr Allred from Texas for his
five minutes