During the 2024 presidential primary season, Ron DeSantis was heralded as a “conservative” alternative to Donald Trump, but ever since the election, he has proven to those paying attention that there’s no difference between the two when it comes to…
In his latest assault against the First Amendment’s protection of free speech and the free press, Donald Trump is ready to aggressively pursue reporters who receive leaked information from confidential government sources. Once implemented, the policy will give Trump the…
What the Founders rebelled against — armed government agents invading homes without cause — we are now being told to accept in the so-called name of law and order. This is the face of Constitution-free policing in Trump’s America. Imagine…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — A broad coalition of legal and civil liberties organizations is once again challenging President Trump for using executive orders in retaliation against law firms that he perceives as political opponents, to suppress opposition and chill lawful First…
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Denouncing the Trump Administration’s ongoing attempts to silence dissent and chill lawful First Amendment activity, The Rutherford Institute has joined a broad coalition of eleven legal and civil liberties organizations to challenge President Trump’s use of presidential…
“Once the principle is established that the government can arrest and jail protesters… officials will use it to silence opposition broadly.”—Heather Cox Richardson, historian You can’t have it both ways. You can’t live in a constitutional republic if you allow the government…
Donald Trump and Marco Rubio are taking the war on liberty up a notch with the release of plan known as “Catch and Revoke,” a program that will use Artificial Intelligence (AI) to spy on the social media accounts of…
