President Donald Trump speaks to reporters aboard Air Force One on Sunday while en route to Joint Base Andrews in Maryland. Julia Demaree Nikhinson/AP

As the Trump administration faces backlash over officials’ decisions to target speech with which it disagrees, federal judges have already left a lengthy trail of rulings lambasting the government for trampling over the First Amendment rights of elite law firms, news organizations, unions and others.

The rulings underscore how judges have pushed back this year on President Donald Trump’s effort to test the durability of the First Amendment as he seeks to expand executive power in his second term. They could serve as a warning as officials open a new front in their First Amendment stress test in the wake of the assassination of conserva

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