Whether we are headed towards, or are already in, a Constitutional Crisis is currently being debated. Wider debates about a Constitutional Crisis are outside my expertise, but as a law librarian I can argue that we are in an “Access to Information Crisis” – a crisis implicating the First Amendment. Access to information issues didn’t start with the current Administration’s actions, but the breadth and speed with which this Administration is removing information from public access and chilling speech has intensified the issue to crisis level. This crisis has vast implications for society, the law, and democracy. Access to information is an essential part of a functioning society and democracy, but, over 200 years after James Madison wrote “[a] popular Government, without popular information, or the means of acquiring it, is but a prologue to a Farce or a Tragedy; or perhaps both” we face a crisis of information access and democracy. Since January, thousands of federal government websites have been taken down or altered and significant amounts of government data are no longer accessible. The mass removal of information in such a short period of time is distressing. It’s what one federal researcher called “digital genocide.” Some information has been restored due to a temporary restraining order issued by the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia that ordered the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), and Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to restore webpages and datasets to “their versions as of January 30, 2025.” But the restraining order only applies to the agencies named in the order, is temporary, and it’s not clear how much information has actually been restored and if information was altered prior to restoration. In addition to actual removal of information we must worry and plan for the potential future removal of vital resources, like IRS information and PubMed.