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By PAUL E. SCHINDLER JR. I am from Portland, Oregon, Beaumont ’66, Benson High ’70, MIT ’74. Some things are impossible to know, but it is impossible to know these things.

First Amendment Death Hastened

January 16, 2026

It could not possibly be clearer:

Trump Cabinet secretaries conspired to violate Constitution, judge says

On Thursday [Jan. 16], U.S. District Judge William Young (a Reagan appointee) again denounced the administration’s conduct in unusually stark terms. “Talking straight here,” he said. “The big problem in this case is that the Cabinet secretaries and ostensibly, the president of the United States, are not honoring the First Amendment.”

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