Jenin Younes keeps having to find new allies.

She was a 36-year-old public defender in New York City when covid-19 swept in, prompting lockdowns and mask mandates that struck her as heavy-handed. Her increasingly vocal online criticism of those policies alienated her from her left-leaning social and professional circles. But it won her new friends on the right — and new prominence as a First Amendment lawyer who sued the Biden administration for alleged censorship in a case that reached the Supreme Court.

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