Disfavored speech? Blinken you’ll miss it. Blinken’s State Department funded the development, testing, and marketing of censorship technology used to suppress First Amendment-protected speech based on viewpoints expressed in their content. Dozens of agencies and some private-sector accomplices used Blinken’s censorship tools, which is why NCLA sued to stop one of the most egregious violations of the First Amendment’s guarantees of freedom of press and freedom of speech in American history.
We can control what you wear on federal lands! NCLA client David Lesh was indicted by Randy Moore and his US Forest Service for posting an image on his personal Instagram account of someone snowboarding in a federal park. Why is that a crime? USFS argued that wearing clothing which Mr. Lesh’s company also sells turned the image into an advertisement, which magically transformed an otherwise perfectly legal snowboarding pic into the crime of engaging in commercial activity! The Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals sensibly reversed that conviction in July, leaving Lesh with a trespassing charge which he is contesting at the Supreme Court because he was denied a jury trial.