A conservative judge has excoriated Donald Trump over free speech, depicting him as a bully who engages in “hollow bragging” to get his way and seeks to strike fear into people so they don’t speak up.
In a blistering 161-page ruling, federal judge William Young also hit out at ICE agents for using masks to ”terrorize Americans into quiescence” and likened wearing them to “cowardly desperados and the despised Ku Klux Klan.”
And he hit out at the president’s “palpable misunderstanding” that his government simply can’t seek revenge for speech he doesn’t like.
“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 as they are lulled into thinking their own personal interes