Washington D.C. residents are living under nightly checkpoints and constant National Guard patrols after President Donald Trump seized authority over the city’s law enforcement and declared the nation’s capital under federal control, with almost 400 people detained since the takeover last week.
The Trump administration has made $1.1 billion in cuts to public broadcasting and has attacked the free press by filing a $10 billion defamation lawsuit against The Wall Street Journal, according to the ACLU, which argues that these actions violate the First Amendment.
The ACLU has filed amicus briefs in support of NPR and PBS’s lawsuits against President Trump’s executive order to defund the broadcasters, arguing that the order violates the First Amendment by retaliating against protected speech.
Denis Akbari, a Berkeley Journalism student, volunteered with the San Quentin News and is now working with Harvard-Yale IPIPS to develop the Inside Knowledge platform, a collaborative, justice-driven media infrastructure that empowers incarcerated people to become creators, scholars, and civically engaged members of their communities.
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