Conservative Sues Twitter, California Officials, and Biden Campaign Consultants For Colluding to Deplatform Him
California | June 21, 2021
Conservative political commentator and attorney Rogan O’Handley is suing former California Secretary of State and now U.S. Senator Alex Padilla, current Calif. SoS Shirley Weber, Twitter, Team Biden campaign consultants SKDK, and others, for coordinating to deplatform him from Twitter after he tweeted his concerns about the 2020 election.
The Center for American Liberty in conjunction with the Dhillon Law Group, Inc. filed the federal civil rights lawsuit on Thursday in the United States District Court in Central California.
O’Handley spent years developing a verified Twitter account with 440,000 followers only to find his account permanently suspended at the direction of the Secretary of State’s office, according to a press release from Center for American Liberty.
“For far too long, Big Tech has avoided accountability for their blatant censorship of conservatives, but that’s going to change because we now have smoking gun evidence showing that they were acting as agents of the government,” O’Handley said in the release. “These are the types of infringements that the 1st Amendment was specifically designed to protect against. This case is for the millions of conservatives across America who are censored by social media with no repercussion. This is for every American’s right to free speech. This is for our constitution.”
Judicial Watch in April released a trove of 540 documents, obtained through California’s Open-Record’s Act, that revealed how Padilla directly colluded with Democratic political consulting firm SKDK and Twitter to permanently suspend users who were critical of Padilla’s job of conducting elections….
(Excerpts from the Tennessee Star)