GOP hypocrisy: Free speech for me but not for thee

 

Top headline:  Associated Press

Bottom headline:  Wisconsin State Journal

Nate Raymond and Jan Wolfe report for Reuters:

President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of "government censorship." 

Since then, a wave of court rulings concluded his administration has done the opposite. Reuters identified 75 federal judge rulings finding Trump’s government infringed on First Amendment rights, including freedoms of speech, religion and the press. 

The pushback included repeated findings that the administration chilled or squelched the speech of citizens and groups opposing the Republican president’s agenda.

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