Technically, John Adams when he signed the Alien and Sedition Act was the first to use his power to censor his political opponents, and then Woodrow Wilson with some other law they passed in the lead up to the US joining WWI, a war we had no business being in.
Technically, John Adams when he signed the Alien and Sedition Act was the first to use his power to censor his political opponents, and then Woodrow Wilson with some other law they passed in the lead up to the US joining WWI, a war we had no business being in.
But he's otherwise correct.