The First Amendment prohibits Congress from making laws that abridge freedom of speech or of the press, but in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, it’s clear that it doesn’t take a law to attack those rights.
Guest: Karen Attiah, former columnist for the Washington Post and former editor of the Post’s Global Opinions section.
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