A gag order is an interesting concept in the land of concern for First Amendment rights. Of course, in Donald Trump’s case, practically everyone expects him to run up against the edge of indiscretion and challenge the statute, which he has apparently already done because he can’t help himself.
It seems inherently dicey—an easy target for 1st Amendment purists—to place a gag order. But in Trump’s case, the argument could be made that his intent is to offer up cues which his army of lemmings can only interpret as a call to arms or a call to violence. Trump has a knack for melding incendiary language with plausible deniability, daring authorities to react.
By the sound of things, a gag order is not out of the question here, but it has to be narrow enough to walk that line between being effective while not trampling on 1st Amendment rights.
Trump is a known quantity. He has a history of suspect rhetoric. In his case, a gag order seems almost inevitable, even warranted. He’ll bring it on himself and then cry “oppression.”
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