gravamen:
- a grievance
- Law the essential part of a complaint or accusation [Your Dictionary]
Noted in “The Bully Podium: Is the First Amendment Defenseless?” Anne Tindall & Ben Berwick, Take Care:
Our sense, however, is that when the White House goes after its critics, the gravamen of the concern is an affront to the First Amendment. So for this post, we’d like to focus on whether there’s a First Amendment claim against government bullying of the press, and, if so, what that claim looks like.
