Ronald G. Shafer
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Column: Trump’s press attacks echo ‘Sedition Act’ debates (opens the original)
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President Donald Trump is channeling President John Adams. Trump is subpoenaing reporters, suing news companies and siccing legal lapdogs on critics. Adams attacked detractors with the Sedition Act of 1798 outlawing “the writing, printing, uttering or publishing [of] any false, scandalous and malicious writing or writings about the government of the United States.” The law from Adams’s Federalist Party has lessons for freedom of speech today. The first target was Vermont Rep. Matthew Lyon of the
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