Constitutional Law
Jun. 1, 2020
The crossroads of free speech and executive prerogative
May 27, 2020, will be remembered as the day when the president of the United States publicly threatened to censor political speech.
Michael Montaño
Michael is an antitrust, privacy, and technology lawyer practicing in California and Texas and a Political Partner of the Truman National Security Project focused on the rule of law. You can find him and supporting citations for this column on Twitter at @montanotx.
May 27, 2020, will be remembered as the day when the president of the United States publicly threatened to censor political speech. "Republicans feel that Social Media Platforms totally silence conservatives['] voices," President Donald Trump announced on Twitter. "We will strongly regulate, or close them down, before we can ever allow this to happen." The next day, Trump issued an executive order beginning to make good on that threat by seeking, among other things, t...
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