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Trump's plan to label antifa a "terrorist organization" likely to face legal hurdles: "You can't prosecute an ideology"

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  • Policy Leaning

    8% Center

  • Politician Portrayal

    -35% Negative

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Contributing sentiments towards policy:

61% : But the movement gained attention after the violent clashes between white nationalists and anti-racism protesters in Charlottesville, Virginia, in August 2017.
58% : "When the president refers to antifa, whether in remarks to reporters or speeches, he's usually referring to domestic non-state actors and domestic incidents, so how are they going to portray that as foreign?
47% : "Do we as Americans still enjoy the right to free speech, to nonviolent political expression of our views, however unpalatable the Trump administration might find those views?
44% : "There's tremendous variation inside that movement, even on issues like political violence.
18% : Washington -- President Trump announced on social media Wednesday that he's designating antifa as a "major terrorist organization."

*Our bias meter rating uses data science including sentiment analysis, machine learning and our proprietary algorithm for determining biases in news articles. Bias scores are on a scale of -100% to 100% with higher negative scores being more liberal and higher positive scores being more conservative, and 0% being neutral. The rating is an independent analysis and is not affiliated nor sponsored by the news source or any other organization.

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