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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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Trump Moves to Block US Entry for Foreign Students Planning to Study at Harvard

It’s a further escalation in the White House’s fight with the nation’s oldest university. A Harvard official called it a violation of the school's First Amendment rights.

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FIRE’s Robert Corn-Revere on Trump’s ‘Election Interference’ Suit Against Pollster

In an interview, Corn-Revere, Selzer’s attorney, discusses the First Amendment issues in this case and outlines why filing this lawsuit under the “consumer fraud” statute is meritless.

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Judge Blocks Florida From Enforcing Social Media Ban for Kids While Lawsuit Continues

The judge wrote that the prohibition on social media platforms from allowing certain age groups to have accounts “directly burdens those youths’ rights to engage in and access speech.”

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Ex-Homeland Security Official Fights Back Against Trump’s ‘Unprecedented’ Investigation

He alleges that Trump's memo violates his First Amendment rights by going after him for his criticism of the president, calling it “political retribution and vindictive prosecution.”

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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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