The Biden administration could not get around the First Amendment in silencing dissent, but it has effectively found way through the State Department paying NewsGuard to defund conservative media, according to a trio of researchers from the American Institute for Economic Research (AIER).

The First Amendment is “is so clear that only a politician could manage to miss the point,” AIER senior researchers Phillip Magness, James Harrigan, and Ryan Yonk wrote in the New York Post this week.

“And when politicians miss the point of a straightforward, necessary protection, they manage to find all kinds of people willing to help them place ideology above constitutionality, common sense, and simple decency.

“We give you the Biden State Department and NewsGuard.”