Profs & Pints DC: Trump Versus Free Speech

Profs and Pints DC presents: “Trump Versus Free Speech,” on the current administration’s efforts to impose orthodoxy and stifle dissent, with Stephen Vladeck, professor of law at the Georgetown University Law Center and nationally recognized expert on constitutional law and the federal courts.

In his first 100 days in office, President Trump has taken a host of actions that have advocates of free speech concerned. Among such moves, he has punished law firms for representing former government officials who were involved in Trump-related investigations. He has cut off federal funding from universities and other entities for supporting causes to which he objects. He has shut down government programs simply for using terminology he doesn’t like. And he has reassigned or even terminated federal employees for no other reason than because they hold different political views.

Many, if not most, of these initiatives are called into question by the First Amendment…