(02-26-2017, 08:45 AM)Alram Wrote: It is a incorrect to say that this treatment of the press is without precedent. To take what is possibly the most extreme example, consider the sedition act passed under President John Adams in 1798 .
... which is not only thought to be unconstitutional, but also considered one of the great blots on the history of freedom in the early Republic. There's precedent for just about everything at some point in US history. But some of them are definitely not worth repeating!
-Jester