Not sure exactly where the Constitution has confirmed a government freedom to censor, but that’s apparently what a federal judge has discovered, in order to rule that the organization formerly named the Global Engagement Center and assigned to censor Americans must stay alive.
It is the Federalist confirming that while U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced the Center Foreign Information Manipulation and Interference Hub, formerly known as the GEC, was dead, a judge said otherwise.
It is Susan Illston, a judge in the leftist enclave of San Francisco, who has, “through the miraculous powers of an activist judge,” has said no, the report said.
The organization must remain, she is claiming.
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The report described GEC, or R-FIMI under its new name, as “the creepy censorship arm within the Department of State that curtails free speech.”
The focal point of the argument, the report said, is “whether the president has the authority to reorganize the federal workplace and trim excess employees or if only unelected local judges have that authority for the entire nation.”
Illston also claimed, in taking over responsibilities of the Executive Branch, “If the State Department has any question about whether planned actions fall within the scope of the court’s injunction, the court orders the department to first raise those questions with the court before taking action.”
Illston’s rant comes because of the president’s agenda to find and eliminate waste, fraud, corruption and criminal activity in the government’s spending programs. He created the Department of Government Efficiency to address the problems.
Illston earlier had used a legal filing from the American Federation of Government Employees and the AFL-CIO to try to destroy Trump plans to save money.
“Rubio made the case that the State Department is not subject to the injunction and planned to move forward with cutting employees and sunsetting R-FIMI, until Illston’s order put that on pause,” the report said.
The ex-GEC organization was assembled by Barack Obama in 2016 and funded with $50 million a year.
The federal tax dollars it got, “helped grease the wheels of the Russian election interference hoax that marred Trump’ first term. The agency was used instead to pressure tech companies to meddle in the 2020 election,” the report said.
US District Judge Susan Illston in San Francisco temporarily blocked the US State Department from implementing an agency-wide reorganization plan that includes nearly 2,000 layoffs.
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— Reuters Legal (@ReutersLegal) June 16, 2025
LAWFARE: Democrat Judge Susan Illston has ordered Trump NOT to shutdown the US government’s censorship agency after all. The Clinton judge also ordered Rubio NOT to terminate USAID workers at US embassies. https://t.co/xDXef9My4Y
— @amuse (@amuse) June 16, 2025
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