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Democrats and witnesses tell Judiciary Committee immediate free-speech threats come from U.S. government actions
Summary
During the same hearing, Democrats and Professor David Kaye argued the most urgent threats to freedom of expression are domestic—citing visa revocations, investigations of journalists and researchers, lawsuits against media and the administration's pressure on platforms.
Ranking Member Jamie Raskin (D-Md.) and several Democratic members used the House Judiciary Committee hearing to press an alternate view: that the most pressing threats to free expression are coming from actions by the U.S. executive branch and allied agencies, not from European or U.K. rules.
Why it matters: The hearing became a forum for two overlapping but different narratives: one focused on foreign regulatory spillover and trade effects, the other on domestic governmental pressure on media, researchers and immigration enforcement that Democrats say chills speech.
Democratic concerns and examples cited
- Raskin opened the…
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