House Judiciary Committee Chair Jim Jordan (R OH) has subpoenaed documents from the Department of Justice, FBI and other agencies on Thursday in relation to allegations that they collaborated with social media companies for the censorship of First Amendment protected content. This includes the Hunter Biden Laptop story 2020.

Jordan wrote to Attorney General Merrick Wray and FBI Director Christopher Wray, in letters that were obtained by The Washington Examiner, to say that the documents will help his committee investigate “how and to what extent the Executive Branch colluded and coerced companies and other intermediaries for censorship.”

The chairman requested that the DOJ as well as the FBI give him all internal documents and communication relating to the moderation, suppression or removal of content from private company platforms. He gave them until Sept. 15, 2015 to provide the material.

He referred to letters he wrote to Garland and Wray that included a wide range of requests for records relating to censorship. Jordan cited findings from the “Twitter Files” at the time that revealed the FBI engaged with X (formerly known as Twitter) about the New York Post story implicating Joe Biden and his son Hunter Biden’s business dealings in advance of the 2020 presidential election.

Jordan wrote in his letter to his committee on Thursday that, so far, the DOJ had only provided “one document,” which Jordan described as being “woefully insufficient.”

He wrote that the document “omits vast amounts of material including communications between DOJ, tech companies and internal communications as well as communications between DOJ, other executive branch entities and DOJ.”

He pointed out that, in Missouri v. Biden U.S. district judge Terry Doughty had issued a broad preliminary injunction ordering the Biden Administration to cease certain communications related to censorship with social media companies as the lawsuit played out.

The court’s ruling details numerous interactions between the FBI and social-media companies. Both the DOJ, as well as the FBI, are named in the case.

Jordan wrote: “A federal court has found that communications between various executive branch entities and social media platforms, such as the Department of Justice (including the Department of Justice), very likely violate Americans’ First Amendment Rights.” “Yet, you have provided nothing substantive in response to the Committee’s request.”

The Washington Examiner contacted the DOJ to get a comment.

Below are copies of letters:

Jordan Garland by Washington Examiner

Jordan to Garland by Washington Examiner