Louisiana is the 27th state to ban “Zuckerbucks” (the injection of private money into public election administration) after North Carolina banned the use of private funds by overriding the governor’s veto of the election integrity legislation.
Trump-backed Louisiana gubernatorial candidate Jeff Landry won his election Saturday night, flipping the Democrat-led state to Republican.
Federal officials appeared to practice “fairly unsubtle strong-arming” social media companies into censorship, appellate judge says, likening them to mafia. Censorship is ongoing against Louisiana officials, state claims.
HB 311 stipulates that “[n]o funds, goods, or services donated by a foreign government or a nongovernmental source shall be used to conduct elections unless provided for in the election code and subject to restrictions provided by general law.”
The members of the Election Integrity Partnership and Virality Project conspired with state, local, and federal government officials to violate the First Amendment rights of social media users, a class-action lawsuit filed on Tuesday in a Louisiana federal court alleged.
In Missouri v. Biden, the states of Louisiana and Missouri allege that social media companies, such as Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and YouTube, censored certain viewpoints and users on their platforms at the direction of, and under coercive pressure by, top Biden administration officials and various federal government agencies.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry and Missouri Attorney General Andrew Bailey filed a motion for a preliminary injunction on Monday to block top federal government officials from allegedly “coercing and colluding” with Big Tech to violate First Amendment rights.
Louisiana Attorney General Jeff Landry’s latest is evidence demonstrating the federal government’s use of Big Tech communications monopolies to censor its critics was not at all limited to Twitter.
The NCLA is party to an ongoing lawsuit filed by the Attorneys General of Louisiana and Missouri alleging improper collusion between the federal government and social media companies, and obtained the emails via discovery.
Louisiana became the first Democratic-run state to drop out of a federal unemployment program that provided out-of-work Americans with an extra $300 a week in aid.
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