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Trump 2.0: Executive Power and the First Amendment

This resource catalogues the breadth of unprecedented actions taken by the Trump administration that disregard fundamental First Amendment principles, sparking a massive legal response.

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Demonstrators protest in solidarity with Pro-Palestinian organizers on the Columbia University campus, in New York City

The Knight Institute’s Ramya Krishnan on the Trump Administration’s Unconstitutional Targeting of Noncitizen Speech

Krishnan applauded Judge Young’s rebuke of the Trump administration’s actions, and explained how those actions led to an immense chilling effect on scholarly works and students’ active participation in college campus demonstrations.

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‘No Kings’ Protests Return as Trump Ramps up Authoritarian Practices, Organizers Say

It’s the second “No Kings” protest and third mass movement against the administration this year, and it comes amid an intensifying conflict between federal law enforcement and protesters nationwide.

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General view of the Pentagon where at least 30 news organizations refused to sign a new access policy in Washington

Journalists Turn in Access Badges, Exit Pentagon Rather Than Agree to New Reporting Rules

It is unclear what practical impact the new rules will have, though news organizations vowed they’d continue robust coverage of the military no matter the vantage point.

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Brown University Rejects Trump’s Offer for Priority Funding, Citing Concerns Over Academic Freedom

Brown previously struck a deal with the Trump administration to restore lost research funding and end federal investigations into discrimination.

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James Madison
[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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