{"id":7872,"date":"2025-04-01T20:22:23","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:22:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/if-you-want-to-protect-american-democracy-defend-free-speech\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T20:22:23","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T20:22:23","slug":"if-you-want-to-protect-american-democracy-defend-free-speech","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/if-you-want-to-protect-american-democracy-defend-free-speech\/","title":{"rendered":"If you want to protect American democracy, defend free speech"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is using a Cold War-era statute to deport legal residents who make pro-Hamas statements, but defenders of free speech argue that if Mahmoud Khalil had pro-Hamas views, it shouldn&#8217;t matter&#8230;<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/thehill.com\/opinion\/5224710-pro-hamas-student-mahmoud-khalil\/\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Trump administration is using a Cold War-era statute to deport legal residents who make pro-Hamas statements, but defenders of free speech argue that if Mahmoud Khalil had pro-Hamas views, it shouldn&#8217;t matter&#8230;Read More<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7873,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7872","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-politics"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7872"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7872\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7872"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7872"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bluelightnews.com\/category\/politics\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7872"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}