The Supreme Court on Tuesday declined to take up a conservative legal group’s bid to revive its lawsuit against California over its secretary of state’s removal of a “misleading” video in the lead-up to the 2020 presidential election.

Judicial Watch claimed in its 2022 lawsuit that an office under California Secretary of State Shirley Weber (D) caused YouTube to remove one of its “election integrity” videos weeks before the contest, in violation of the group’s First Amendment rights.

However, lower courts dismissed the complaint. The U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit held that Weber’s conduct amounted to permissible government speech, rejecting the notion promoted by Judicial Watch that the district court failed to consider whether her actions would chill the average person.

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