Trump vowed to ‘bring free speech back.’ Judges in 75 cases ruled he has stifled it.

U.S. President Donald Trump repeatedly campaigned for his second term as a champion of free expression, vowing in his January 2025 inaugural address to stop what he described as years of “government censorship.”

Since then, a wave of court rulings has concluded his administration has done the opposite. Seventy-five federal-judge rulings were identified finding Trump’s government infringed on First-Amendment rights including freedoms of speech, religion, and the press.

The unprecedented pushback on constitutional grounds has included repeated findings that the administration chilled or squelched the speech of citizens and groups opposing the Republican’s agenda.