Eric Schmitt Wins One for the First Amendment
Four years ago, he filed a lawsuit that most people laughed at. This week, he won.
Four years ago, Eric Schmitt did something that most politicians talk about but never actually do: he picked a fight he wasn’t sure he could win.
As Missouri’s Attorney General, Schmitt filed a lawsuit called Missouri v. Biden. The argument was simple — the Biden Administration was using its power to pressure social media companies into silencing conservative Americans. Not asking. Not suggesting. Coordinating, directing, and threatening. Using the weight of the federal government to tell private platforms which voices should be heard and which should be suppressed.
The censorship machine was massive. But Schmitt decided to take it on.
Missouri v. Biden
Schmitt’s lawsuit exposed something most Americans suspected but couldn’t prove: that the Biden White House was systematically colluding with Big Tech to shape what you were allowed to read, watch, and share.
Documents uncovered through the litigation revealed that Biden officials at the Department of Homeland Security, the FBI, the CDC, and other agencies were in regular communication with Facebook, Twitter, and other platforms — flagging content for removal, pressuring companies to downgrade certain posts, and treating American citizens’ speech as a national security threat to be managed.
The Russia hoax. The origins of Covid. Hunter Biden’s laptop. The 2020 election. In every one of these stories, the censorship operation was running in the background and coordinating to suppress facts that inconvenienced the Biden Administration and amplify narratives that helped it.
Schmitt’s lawsuit laid this bare in federal court. And it didn’t stop there.
The case made its way through the federal judicial system, drawing national attention and helping expose what Schmitt would later call “the censorship industrial complex.” It forced government officials to testify. It produced documents. It put facts on the record that could not be wished away.
This Week, He Won
On March 24, a landmark consent decree settled Missouri v. Biden.
The result: federal agencies are now legally banned from pressuring Big Tech to censor speech.
Not cautioned. Not restricted pending appeal. Banned by a federal court order that carries legal weight, no future election can simply erase. The next administration cannot undo this with an executive order. It is settled law.
Let that sink in. Four years ago, Eric Schmitt filed a lawsuit that the political establishment ignored. His opponents said it was a stunt. His critics said it was hopeless. He pressed on anyway — through the courts, through the elections, through his first years in the Senate — and he won.
The government can no longer use its power to tell Big Tech to silence you.
That is not a small thing. That is a historic First Amendment victory. And it belongs to every conservative who believed in this fight before it was finished.
What Comes Next
The censorship machine is not gone. The organizations that built it are still operating. The instinct that drove Biden officials to pick up the phone and tell Facebook what to suppress hasn’t disappeared.
But this consent decree establishes something permanent: a court-enforced limit on what the government can do. A legal precedent that will be cited for years. A public record of what the Biden Administration did and what it cost them.
Schmitt’s victory is a reminder that the fight for the First Amendment is not lost. It’s being won, case by case, senator by senator, in the places where principled conservatives are willing to do the hard, long, unglamorous work of fighting a system that would rather they just went away.
A Word of Thanks
The Senate Conservatives Fund has invested hundreds of thousands of dollars into Eric Schmitt’s campaigns.
That means you did.
Every person who donated through SCF — who trusted us to vet the candidates, find the fighters, and put your money where the battle was actually being won — helped put Eric Schmitt in the seat where he could fight this case to a conclusion. You helped put him in the Senate, where he chaired the hearing, built the record, and kept the pressure on.
This victory is yours, too.
If you want to help us find and elect the next Eric Schmitt — the principled conservative who is filing the lawsuit right now that will matter in four years — we are always grateful for your support. The fights that are just beginning today will be won by the senators we elect tomorrow.
SCF will keep doing what we do: standing with the conservatives who have proven that they will fight for you.
