Holy Week was not a good week for personal liberty, as governments across the United States engaged in direct and subtle attacks on free speech.
Our words are the last bastion against leaders' totalitarian impulses“I do not agree with a word that you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it.”
The freedom of speech is both a natural and a constitutional right. It is expressly guaranteed in the First Amendment. That amendment commands not that Congress grant the freedom of speech but that Congress is prohibited from infringing upon it. Moreover, every person employed by any government in the United States takes an oath of allegiance to the Constitution, including all its amendments. You’d never know that from the events of the past week.Last week, Texas enacted a law requiring all state schools — from prekindergarten to graduate schools — to punish speech deemed antisemitic by officials. South Dakota did the same.
Also last week, a justice of the New York Supreme Court — that’s the trial court in New York — entered a gag order prohibiting former President Donald Trump from criticizing the daughter of the justice. The daughter is a fundraiser for Democratic clients who use the prosecution of the former president in their fundraising solicitations. The daughter has voluntarily entered the marketplace of ideas by her professional work, much of which is aimed at the former president.
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