President Donald Trump speaks to a gathering of top U.S. military commanders at Marine Corps Base Quantico, on September 30, 2025, in Quantico, Virginia. Evan Vucci/AP

In the most extraordinary judicial rebuke of President Donald Trump’s second term, a Ronald Reagan-appointed judge on Tuesday cast him as a lawless president who endorsed a “truly scandalous and unconstitutional suppression of free speech.”

But as striking as that was, so was US District Judge William G. Young’s pessimism about the American public. The judge predicted that, despite his findings, there wouldn’t “be any meaningful public outcry.”

“I fear President Trump believes the American people are so divided that today they will not stand up, fight for, and defend our most precious constitutional values so long a

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