Trump is shredding the First Amendment under the guise of “national security”
President Donald Trump is going after a pair of major law firms — and attacking the First Amendment in the process.
Trump issued an executive order on Thursday that took aim at Perkins Coie, a law firm that represented Hillary Clinton when she ran against Trump in 2016. Notably, Perkins Coie hired a research firm that produced the infamous “Steele dossier,” which alleged the president colluded with Russia to steal the election. Trump’s order aims to strip the firm’s attorneys of...