On Friday, a federal appeals court delivered an embarrassing defeat to the Biden administration, ruling that the White House likely infringed upon a fundamental constitutional right during the COVID-19 pandemic. In its decision on Friday, the United States Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals in New Orleans declared that the White House, surgeon general, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) had, in fact, unconstitutionally forced Big Tech to censor and suppress protected speech, finding that the Biden administration’s efforts affected how social media platforms responded to posts about COVID during Biden’s first year in office.