Timothy Zick is the John Marshall Professor of Government and Citizenship at William & Mary Law School. Professor Zick teaches courses on constitutional law and the First Amendment. He is the author of Speech Out of Doors: Preserving First Amendment Liberties in Public Places (2009), The Cosmopolitan First Amendment: Protecting Transborder Expressive and Religious Liberties (2014), and The Dynamic Free Speech Clause: Free Speech and its Relation to Other Constitutional Rights (2018). Professor Zick has been a frequent commentator on First Amendment issues in local, national, and international media. In 2012, he testified before a U.S. House of Representatives subcommittee regarding the First Amendment rights of Occupy Wall Street protesters.

"In The First Amendment in the Trump Era, Timothy Zick offers a compelling anddeeply disturbing analysis of how our nation's long-standing commitment to free andopen discourse has been seriously undermined by a President who viciously attacksthe press as "the enemy of the people" and who callously denigrates his critics as"crazy," "corrupt," and "dishonest." This book makes a truly important contribution toour understanding of the contemporary First Amendment." -- Geoffrey R. Stone, , Edward H. Levi Distinguished Service Professor of Law, University of Chicago Law School,

"In a period characterized by the President's public declaration of a "war on the press,"the attempted subversion of truth, and the censorship of dissent, Tim Zick's book is amust read. The Trump Era forces us to think clearly and carefully about why we mustagain embrace and defend core First Amendment values and principles. Zick's bookshows how the lessons of the past can helpfully guide us through the unique FirstAmendment challenges we face today." -- Nadine Strossen, , John Marshall Harlan II Professor of Law, New York Law Schooland author of HATE: Why We Should Resist it With Free Speech, Not Censorship (2018),

"Professor Zick identifies the damage that can be done to a culture of free expressionby a general ignorance of, and disregard for, constitutional norms. He does so not byengaging in hyperbolic rhetoric or partisan rants, but by clearly and concisely placingcurrent First Amendment controversies in their proper legal and historical perspectives.This is a book for anyone who believes, as I do, that the American constitutional systemwas designed by geniuses so that it could survive even the rule of idiots." -- Robert Corn-Revere, , First Amendment Attorney, Davis Wright Tremaine LLP