Welcome to the Tech Policy Podcast. I'm Ashken Kuzarian. On today's show, we're going to talk about our lawsuit against President Trump for First Amendment violations.

Pan America, the leading national organization that represents writers and literary professionals and defense-free

expression has filed a lawsuit against President Donald Trump for using the powers of the

federal government to retaliate against journalists and media outlets that he finds objectionable.

Obviously, they argue that this is against the First Amendment and our Constitution.

Pan America is represented in this case by a non-profit Protect Democracy and the Yale Law School Media Freedom and Information Access Clinic.

We have Christy Parker, Council at Protect Democracy, joining us to tell us more about the lawsuit and Baron Zoka.

The resident lawyer and the Wong and also

my boss, Baron, thank you for coming.

One of many lawyers, including you, of course.

All right, Christy, before we get into this fascinating lawsuit, can you tell us a little

bit about protect democracy and what do you guys do?

Sounds like you just have fun all day. Well, first of all,

thank you for having me and it absolutely is. It's both fun and also a great privilege to work

at an organization that protects democracy. I think we are, our mission is very closely tied to the way in which we are named.

We focus on the protection of our democracy and our democratic institutions and doing everything we can think of to prevent our democracy from sliding into a more authoritarian form of government.

Even more.

Even more. So you government. Even more. Even more.

So you filed a complaint with the United States, the Court for the sovereign district of New York.

And first of all, why that by new?

Well, for fairly obvious reasons, a Penn American Center, or Penn America, for short, is a nonprofit organization that is headquartered in New York.

So that is where the organization itself resides.

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