The Democratic former speaker of the House, Nancy Pelosi, said on Wednesday that press freedom is “under siege” in the United States after the Trump administration arrested a prominent journalist and searched the home of another. “Let’s make no mistake: we are living in a time when the first amendment is under siege here at home,” she said at an annual dinner for reporters covering Congress convened by the Washington Press Club. She did not spare the president in her remarks, nor the conservative justices who hold a majority of the supreme court’s seats. We have a president who has crowned himself King, a Congress which has abolished itself, and a supreme court that has gone rogue,” Pelosi said. “Our first amendment – a free and independent press – the fourth estate – is essential to the survival of our Republic.”

Source: The Guardian February 05, 2026 18:55 UTC