The Many All-American Tools Trump Can Use To Chill Freedom
From the proposed Department of Government Efficiency to possible invocation of the Insurrection Act of 1807 to the Espionage Act of 1917 to the proposal to take away the non-profit status of organizations alleged to have ties to terrorists, there is a large toolbox available tht can be used to repress freedom of speech and of the press. Even taking on the imagined “deep state” would have a chilling effect on civil servants. As our guest Nan Levinson reminds us, there’s a lot journalists and regular citizens can do to protect our First Amendment rights.
