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There is already a growing bloc on the right flank of the Supreme Court that wants to cripple key elements of the First Amendment, warned Ian Millhiser for Vox — and if former President Donald Trump is given another term, he could possibly add enough justices to let that actually happen. It comes down to a pair of key rulings from the 1960s: Brandenburg v. Ohio, which protected political agitators’ right to speech, and New York Times v. Sullivan, which limited the government’s right to sue the news media — a practice long used by segregationists to suppress the Civil Rights Movement. Before th…

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