Injustice for All is a weekly series about how the Trump administration is trying to weaponize the justice system—and the people who are fighting back.
Welcome to the week where we learned that the First Amendment is lib-coded and apparently more of a suggestion than a requirement.
Here’s Republican Sen. Cynthia Lummis of Wyoming explaining how she used to be really into free speech but not so much now:
Oh. Okay. Can we ask why the First Amendment became optional?
Lummis doesn’t mean “politicians” here. If she did, she would have said this in June, when Minnesota state Sen. Melissa Hortman and her husband were assassinated by a hard-right conservative. She means “far-right activist Charlie Kirk and anyone else we deem worthy.”
Kayleigh McEnany, one of Trump’s four first-term press sec