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Free Speech Is The Enemy of Free Speech, Apparently

September 20, 2025·49 min·4 clips

Law professor Marianne Franks warns the Trump administration has unleashed the greatest assault on the First Amendment since the Red Scare.

Dahlia Lithwick interviews law professor Marianne Franks about the Trump administration's assault on the First Amendment, using the Charlie Kirk assassination as a case study to explore contradictions in free speech, government coercion of private actors, and the rise of a surveillance state.

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