PRESS FREEDOM GROUP TAKES TRUMP TO COURT.

Date01 June 2019
AuthorLueders, Bill

Many people in the United States consider President Donald Trumps attacks on the press to be appalling. The press freedom group PEN America goes further; it considers them actionable. "The President has violated the First Amendment, and his oath to uphold the Constitution, through directives to administration officials to take retaliatory actions and credible public threats to use his government powers against those who report the news in ways he does not welcome," the group declares in a lawsuit filed last October and amended in February. "Although the President is free to criticize the press, he cannot use the power and authority of the United States government to punish and stifle it."

PEN America is one of about 100 affiliates of PEN International. The group was founded in 1921, and its original members included Joseph Conrad, George...

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