Defend the First Amendment. Speak out. Act against violations of 1A

I write to ask you to reaffirm the First Amendment in public statements, in the local and national media and on your social media. The oath you swore to uphold and defend the constitution requires you to defend the First Amendment against all who seek to undermine it, or to remove our rights. The first amendment reads: "Amendment I: Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press; or the right of the people peaceably to assemble, and to petition the Government for a redress of grievances." The attacks on the first amendment since Trump took office alarm me. Today the State Department instructed employees to report others for non-Christian bias. Do you approve of this? It contravenes the First Amendment. In fact, it sounds not only unconstitutional but also like something you'd see in a fascist theocratic state. Tufts University student Rümeysa Öztürk was detained by six plainclothes agents of the United States Department of Homeland Security (DHS) because of an editorial she co-authored in a student newspaper. She is a green card holder. Since when do we allow people guilty of no crime to be kidnapped off the street by plainclothes agents, with no due process and no charges? All because they exercised the constitutional right to freedom of expression. Where will this end? What will it take for Congress to take action? Are you going to fill in a bingo card of the numbers of every article of the constitution and every item in the bill of rights that this administration tears into shreds? It's time to speak out: Defend the first amendment. Condemn these violations of the constitution. Impeach Trump. Use congressional oversight to expose and censure violations. Please reply in writing to tell me whether you will uphold or betray the constitution of the United States of America.