On Wednesday, over 550 celebrities relaunched a group first organized during the post-World War II Red Scare: the Committee for the First Amendment. Their intent is to stand up in what they call a "defense of our constitutional rights,"
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Trump is seeking to establish a truly chilling proposition: that no one can stop his administration from imprisoning anyone it wants... If the government can disappear any people it wishes, we all should be very, very afraid.
The right to criticize the powerful is a cornerstone of democracy. In Trump’s America, it’s cause for a prison sentence.
What to the Slave Is the Fourth July? by Frederick Douglass speaks to the frustrations spurred by the gap between the ideals of the United States and the reality we witness every day, and the threat of fascism. Read/listen to his brilliant speech.
The Second Amendment was intended in the first instance to protect slaveholders from the people they owned.
Instead of protecting defendants’ right to have their guilt or innocence decided by their peers, judges routinely punish defendants for exercising that right.
Medieval weapons laws, including a 1328 English statute prohibiting the public carry of edged weapons without royal permission, are at the center of dueling legal opinions in the most important gun rights before the Supreme Court since 2008.
It embeds into official U.S. policy a shockingly extremist view of law enforcement as the enemy of the American people
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