ACLU of CT Legal Director Dan Barrett on the Right to Record Police in the Second Circuit

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ABC and Trump’s FCC Battle in Federal Court Over Issues of Free Speech and Jurisdiction

ABC's attorney reiterated the First Amendment argument ABC has been making since the beginning — that it was being targeted for its content.

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Protest in support of Colin Kaepernick and against police brutality and racial inequality in the aftermath of the death in Minneapolis police custody of George Floyd, in Inglewood

3 of Nolan Wells’ Friends Sue NFL Hall of Famer Terrell Owens for Defamation

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Supreme Court Rejects Appeal Over Michigan School Ban on ‘Let’s Go Brandon’ Sweatshirts

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[The] right of freely examining public characters and measures, and of free communication among the people thereon, which has ever been justly deemed the only effectual guardian of every other right.”
-James Madison, Report on the Virginia Resolutions, 1800
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