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• Our First Amendment Rights Don’t Disappear at the Schoolhouse Gates July 19, 2024
  Our First Amendment rights do not disappear at the schoolhouse gates. Students of all ages can, and have, exercised their right to free speech, assembly, religion and expression since America’s founding. At the same time, schools can place reasonable restrictions on how students express themselves if their speech would be disruptive to the school environment […]
  Eda Uzunlar
• Trump Promises to Militarize Police, Reincarcerate Thousands, and Expand Death Penalty July 19, 2024
  This piece was published before Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to represent the Democratic Party. No significant facts have been changed or added. Donald Trump has long identified himself as the candidate of “law and order” but, during the Trump administration, “law and order” translated to a […]
  ACLU
• Pop Quiz: How Much Do You Know About America’s History Of Rejecting Kings? July 12, 2024
  The Supreme Court’s decision in Trump v. United States means that any president can now use their official powers to commit crimes under the assumption they are now presumptively immune. A future president could turn the armed forces against their opponents, turn government agencies against their critics, or reenact some of America’s worst mistakes. No presi […]
  ACLU
• How Trump's Proposed Radical Expansion of Executive Power Will Impact Our Freedoms July 11, 2024
  This piece was published before Joe Biden withdrew from the 2024 presidential election and endorsed Vice President Kamala Harris to represent the Democratic Party. No significant facts have been changed or added. Donald Trump’s four years in office were marked by gross abuses of executive power, including efforts to trample protest and dissent — key freedoms […]
  ACLU
• Supreme Court Term Ends with Win for Trump, First Amendment Rights July 10, 2024
  The Supreme Court’s 2023-24 term will be remembered for one case above all: Trump v. United States, in which the court granted former President Donald Trump immunity from criminal liability for attempts to use his office to obstruct the peaceful transition of power after he lost the 2020 election. At the ACLU, we submitted a friend-of-the-court brief in the […]
  David Cole

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