AdvertisementIt augurs the worst crackdown on political dissent in generations. AdvertisementSo what kind of speech is now subject to a person or entity potentially being deemed a domestic terrorism threat? The memo explicitly states that groups espousing “extremism on migration, race, and gender” are under suspicion as supporters of domestic terrorism. Vance alluded to stripping nonprofit groups like Open Society and the Ford Foundation of their tax-exempt status. Even the Supreme Court’s conservative supermajority, which has generally been sympathetic to Trump, has strongly sided with protections for the kind of core political speech targeted by Trump’s memo.

Source: Huffington Post September 27, 2025 17:51 UTC