Donald Trump Is Tearing Up The First Amendment

[Eugene]

Source: HuffPost

Donald Trump Is Tearing Up The First Amendment

The president is waging an across-the-board war against the First Amendment and its legal interpretations from the mid-20th century to today.

By Paul Blumenthal
Mar 13, 2025, 05:45 AM EDT
|Updated Mar 13, 2025

President Donald Trump is engaged in an all-out assault on speech rights aimed at forcing every sector of society to adopt his administration’s viewpoint or risk discrimination, punishment, and, in some cases, jail, revocation of rights and deportation.

This is the most concerted assault on free speech rights since “the McCarthy Era,” said David Cole, the former legal director of the ACLU and a law professor at Georgetown University Law Center.

“Here, too, you have a government targeting for retribution and for punishment [to] those with whom it disagrees ― and doing so across the board,” Cole said.

These attacks have largely come through a series of executive orders aimed at eliminating from American life Diversity, Equity and Inclusion; transgender people; support for undocumented immigrants; opposition to Israeli government policies; and, of course, anyone Trump perceives as his enemy. Still others have seen their speech rights assailed by the Trump administration for refusing to abide by an executive order purporting to rename the Gulf of Mexico. Numerous lawsuits have been filed to challenge nearly every one of these orders.

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Read more: https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-free-speech_n_67d1e065e4b0668b4e9d495b

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This article is from yesterday, one day before Trump declared all-out war on freedom of the press.

[RockRaven]

1. He does nothing alone. Americans need to wake up about the hordes of

goons and enablers that he has at his disposal. It won't be Donald Trump putting you up against the wall, it will be your neighbors and coworkers and so-called career professionals.