The MAGA storming of the Capitol is two years old. The attempted coup is still happening. The reshaping of the Republican Party as an insurrectionary force and the expansion of armed gangs aim to smash democracy. Please help us to inform, to mobilize and to inspire the forces of multi-racial, radical, inclusive democracy to defeat this threat in 2023.
The Onion has filed a brief in defense of parody in the Supreme Court. "Americans can be put in jail for poking fun at the government? This was a surprise to America's Finest News Source and an uncomfortable learning experience for its editorial team," the brief opens.
“In the popular television series Stranger Things, the ‘upside down’ describes a parallel dimension containing a distorted version of our world,” Judge Walker wrote. “Recently, Florida has seemed like a First Amendment upside down.”
The suit, filed by Dominion Voting Systems, could be one of the most consequential First Amendment cases in a generation.
There can be long periods where it feels impossible to amend the Constitution. But then conditions change and in a very short period of time there can be three, four or five amendments. The heart of the story is progressive change.
For those who are not adherents of the Religious Right, this Court has seriously harmed religious liberty and may do even more harm in the future.
We must reject the legal liberalism that attempts to cordon off constitutional questions from democratic politics.
A zone of voicelessness within the workplace is hard to contain. Lack of voice in undemocratic workplaces radiates outward to erode voice in the purportedly democratic political realm.
*Organize where you are* and please understand a simple truth. The widening assault on K-20 education, union rights, intellectual freedom and the First Amendment is soon coming to your back yard if it hasn't yet arrived.
‘Who defines what peaceful is?’ A deep divide over protests.
Unions were concerned not just for their beloved Scabby but for broader First Amendment rights during labor protests.
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