NEW: Senior officials from within the Justice Department have publicly warned against designating any U.S.-based groups as terrorist organizations—with one senior official telling Congress such a move would be 'highly problematic.'
"Both sides of the aisle would share ," Bradley Wiegmann, a top attorney in the Justice Department's National Security Division, told the House Homeland Security Committee during a hearing last year.
The First Amendment protects the rights of Americans who like spewing"hateful speech" and"assembling with others who share the same hateful views," so"unless an organization engages solely in unprotected activity, such as committing crimes of violence, any designation of a organization as a terrorist organization … would likely run afoul of the First Amendment," Mary McCord, the former head of the Justice Department's National Security Division, told a House...
President Donald Trump speaks to members of the media as he departs the White House in Washington, D.C., on May 30, 2020.
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