The Killing of Charlie Kirk Reveals Why Gun Violence is a Free Speech Issue.

The shooting of Charlie Kirk this week doesn't have us thinking about politics, at least not really. What Mark Joseph Stern and Dahlia Lithwick see is the creep of gun violence overtaking the very notion of free speech. This week, Mark and Dahlia talk about how the prevalence of guns in America are stifling core aspects of democracy and governance. Elsewhere, they discuss federal agents scooping children out of their beds in the middle of night to be sent to Guatemala - and how DoJ lawyers lied about it all. Finally they talk about why maybe it's not a bad thing that SCOTUS is going to hear arguments about Trump's tariff scheme sooner rather than later.

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