I'm Dahlia Lithwick.

This is Amicus Slate's podcast about the courts, the law, and the Supreme Court.

We are going to channel all of the anger that we have over the organized campaign that led to this assassination to uproot and dismantle

these terrorist networks.

We will absolutely target you, go after you if you are targeting anyone with hate speech.

With God is my witness, we are going to use every resource we have at the Department

of Justice, Homeland Security, and throughout this government. St. Paul tells us in the book of

Ephesians to put on the full armor of God. It appears to be some of the sickest conduct possible.

There's calls for Kim will be fired. We had some new lows over the weekend,

with the Maga Gang desperately trying to characterize this kid who murdered Charlie Kirk

as anything other than one of them and doing everything they can to score political points from it.

I mean, look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way.

In the past week, we have pinged back and forth and at high velocities between two competing irreconcilable truths. Charlie Kirk's commitment to unfettered free speech made Charlie Kirk an

American icon, and that a commitment to free speech in his honor demands

firing professors and columnists and comedians for TikToks and tweets and monologues someone deems

as celebrating his assassination. You know you're at Peak Orwell when you can say Charlie Kirk is

the actual Messiah, but you cannot quote

Charlie Kirk's own words if you disagree with that sentiment. You're also at Peak Orwell when talk

of national unification requires threats of criminal vengeance and racketeering charges against dissenters,

all while the Trump regime tightens its grip on the

multi-billion dollar gatekeepers of speech and communication and the corporate organs that dominate

the public square. We've now entered a kind of hyperdrive of speech suppression that comes

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