Texas and two conservative media outlets filed a motion for a preliminary injunction this week as part of their lawsuit accusing the State Department of funding an unconstitutional “censorship scheme.”

The Tuesday evening motion requested that the court immediately halt the Biden administration and top officials from funding or encouraging “the development or use of technology that targets in whole, or in part, Americans’ speech or the American press,” according to a filing. The Daily Wire, the Federalist, and Texas alleged in a December 2023 lawsuit that the State Department skirted the First Amendment when its Global Engagement Center office awarded funds to the Global Disinformation Index, a British think tank that the Washington Examiner reported feeds advertisers blacklists of conservative websites to silence disfavored speech, and NewsGuard, a New York-based company purporting to track “misinformation” online.