Alan Dershowitz: “The Trump Gag Order Violates Your Freedom of Speech: Mr. Trump isn’t the only victim of this ill-advised gag order. It violates your First Amendment rights and mine as well. The First Amendment, as interpreted by the Supreme Court, provides that no government agency can abridge the freedom of speech. This important freedom has two parts. The first is the right of the speaker to express his views. The second, less obvious but equally important, is the right of the public to hear the speaker’s views and evaluate them. Justice Thurgood Marshall summarized Supreme Court case law on this subject in Stanley v. Georgia (1969): ‘It is now well established that the Constitution protects the right to receive information and ideas’…Just as no one is above the law, no one is above criticism regarding the legal process. In the marketplace of ideas protected by the First Amendment, all of us—not the New York courts—have a right to judge him on what he says.”….