US NIH scientists barred from attending conferences on their own time and dime

In addition, the Justice Department has told it's attorney's they can't attend American Bar Association events:

https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-justice-dept-bars-its-attor...

But they can go to Heritage Foundation and Federalist Society... you'd think lawyers would lawyer up on this but they'll just get fired once they show they care.

This is what the fascism looks like folks. America has fallen.

I'm pretty sure there's no legal basis to enforce this, and that any attempt to do so would violate the First Amendment.

Not that the current administration seems very fond of it, if this recently posted (but then deleted) ICE poster is anything to go by: https://perma.cc/2FLY-4S6J

Transcript of the text in the image:

If it crosses the U.S. border illegally, it's our job to

STOP IT.

PEOPLE

MONEY

PRODUCTS

IDEAS

In all the fields I worked, we would have these really passionate people who cared about the area they worked. And they would crawl over broken glass to go to these conferences. The overreach is amazing.