White supremacists’ July 4 march counts as free speech, US interior secretary says

U.S. Interior Secretary Doug Burgum stated on Sunday that federal officials had no grounds to prevent a white supremacist group's July 4 rally in Washington D.C. due to free speech protections. Burgum explained that hundreds of masked Patriot Front members who marched in the capital on July 3rd did not engage in any illegal activities. He acknowledged that the organization's white supremacist and anti-immigrant ideology is something he personally disagrees with. However, Burgum asserted that such speech is protected under the First Amendment, even if it complicates democracy.