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In February 2023, Pete Hegseth and Pam Bondi joined one another to bemoan the state of the First Amendment under the Biden administration.

Hegseth called it “scary” that the “First Amendment has become what appears to be a partisan issue.” Bondi responded: “It’s First Amendment when they say it is, and that’s the problem, Pete.”

Fast forward two and half years, and it’s Hegseth and Bondi – both now high-ranking Cabinet secretaries under President Donald Trump – who are leading the charge to rein in the First Amendment on the new administration’s terms .

But Tuesday brought a major and highly symbolic rebuke. Fox Ne

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