While the Supreme Court has been extremely kind to the Trump administration since he took his second term in office, there have been some minor setbacks for some of his top Cabinet members.

That was evidenced this week after it was reported that a group founded by Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy failed to have the Supreme Court review a case against Meta and the Poynter Institute, PolitiFact’s parent organization.

The Kennedy-founded Children's Health Defense organization filed the lawsuit against the fact-checking tech companies regarding fact-checks on claims linking the flu shot and Coronavirus.

The lawsuit was filed in 2020 against "Meta Platforms, which owns Facebook and Instagram, and Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg; the Poynter Institute for Media Studies, PolitiFact’s owner and publisher; and Science Feedback, another fact-checking website."

What's going on?

During the heightened activity of so-called "fact-checkers" during the pandemic, claims from many different camps were ultimately determined to be "false."

The lawsuit noted:

Among other claims, Children’s Health Defense accused PolitiFact of wrongly determining another website’s claim that the flu vaccine was “significantly associated” with an increased risk of coronavirus false.

Mark R. Caramanica, the lawyer who represented Poynter, released a statement via email regarding the Supreme Court's decision to deny review of the lawsuit, celebrating it as a victory.

"At no point did any court find any of CHD’s legal attacks on Poynter’s fact-checking journalism meritorious," Caramanica, wrote in the email. "We welcome today’s Supreme Court order finally putting this litigation odyssey to bed."

In the lawsuit, Kennedy's foundation accused several entities of trying "to suppress vaccine safety speech with a ‘warning label’ and other similar types of notices which, while purporting to flag misinformation, in reality censor valid and truthful speech, including content posted by (Children’s Health Defense) on its Facebook page regarding vaccines."

Again, most of us remember when anything against the left's "science" was posted, it was flagged by the establishment and called "misinformation."

Politifact responds

In the wake of the lawsuit being shot down by two courts previous to the high court's determination, PolitiFact Executive Director Aaron Sharockman also released a statement celebrating the end of it.

"I’m happy this is over, thankful our court system can see a paper tiger of a lawsuit for what it is, and sorry so much time, thought and money was spent for nothing," Sharockman said.

He added, "We created PolitiFact to help people have access to accurate, high-quality information, not to censor speech, and certainly not to collude with big tech or the federal government."

Yeah, right.