Interior Secretary Doug Burgum says federal officials had no legal grounds to stop a march by the Patriot Front in Washington because the First Amendment protects offensive speech.Burgum condemns the group's white supremacist ideology but declines to urge President Donald Trump to denounce the demonstrators, arguing that objection does not justify legal suppression.Hundreds of masked men in khaki bearing Patriot Front insignia marched near the US Capitol and Union Station, carrying Confederate flags, chanting Reclaim America and later leaving on Metro trains.Civil rights groups call
Patriot Front a white nationalist splinter from
Vanguard America, the Metropolitan Police Department says it is monitoring First Amendment activity, and Burgum also outlines a $14.7M Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool repair.