Protesters were arrested at U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer’s Washington, D.C. office Friday morning while opposing the New York Democrat’s plan to help congressional Republicans prevent a government shutdown with a stopgap funding measure that critics warn will further empower President Donald Trump and his billionaire allies, including Elon Musk.

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Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances

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None of that text matters anymore. Laws are only as good as the enforcement of them. When ICE can strip a green card holder of their right to be in the country and deport unilaterally with no legal accountability for the crime of supporting a cause they don’t like, free speech is over.

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