ICE agents who have been deployed to cities around the U.S. in the Trump administration’s effort to round up illegal immigrants do not want to be filmed during their operations so they have cracked down on individuals who record them, which is a clear violation of the First Amendment, critics say.
U.S. President Donald Trump used to like to bill himself as a fierce defender of the First Amendment, but his administration has been carrying out a policy that seemed to be in complete opposition to that position—especially after the recent assassination of Charlie Kirk, the popular Trump booster.
The University of Minnesota Board of Regents bowed to pressure from U.S. President Donald Trump—who is waging a personal crusade against “antisemitism” at colleges—and announced last week that its schools and institutions will no longer be able to issue statements on “matters of public concern or public interest.”
The U.S. Supreme Court last week gave the middle finger to the First Amendment in a ruling that sided with the Biden administration on the ability for the government to apply pressure on social media companies over alleged “misinformation.”
The U.S. House of Representatives last week passed a controversial bill that critics called exceedingly broad and an attack on the First Amendment.
