Following the murder of Charlie Kirk, the Trump administration vowed to prosecute “antifa” activists for domestic terrorism. Now, it has lived up to that threat. A group of activists who attended an anti-ICE protest that turned dangerously violent have been sentenced to decades in prison, and the case could have huge consequences for the First Amendment and the future of American protests. Carter Sherman spoke to Guardian reporter Lex McMenamin, one of the few journalists who has interviewed the activists at the center of the case.
