It’s chilly in New York for due process rights. New York Attorney General Letitia James used New York Executive Law § 63.12 to allege that then-former President Donald Trump and his company engaged in fraudulent activities, including inflating asset values and misrepresenting financial statements, to secure favorable loans and tax benefits, even though the banks who lent him the money disputed that and testified there was no harm suffered. This unconstitutional statute is an affront to the Fourteenth Amendment because it allows punishment for incorrect business statements without requiring intent (mens rea) or proof of harm.
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.