Jonathan Backer

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

🚨Another ICAP win!🚨 The Court of Appeals of Maryland rejects a challenge seeking to exclude student voices from the Howard County school board after the board's sole student member voted against reopening schools during the height of the COVID pandemic. (1/2)

[Steve Klepper @MDAppeal]

In a 7-0 win for @GeorgetownICAP, the Maryland high court (Gould, J) holds that Maryland legislature has power to create student member positions on local boards of education
https://t.co/RBmzuK8kRA

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Huge victory for free speech! @GeorgetownICAP and @NAACP obtained an order enjoining HB1674, Oklahoma's anti-protest law enacted in the wake of last summer's racial justice protests.

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Important ruling out of NM holding that state law provides legal remedies against unlawful paramilitary activity that are consistent with the 1st and 2nd Amendments. Proud to work with @BerncoDa, @peiferlaw, and colleagues at @GeorgetownICAP in securing this favorable decision.

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

NEW: @GeorgetownICAP receives favorable ruling in case seeking to stop self-styled private militia group from operating in New Mexico. [https://t.co/LapuZDYgZM] /1

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

NEW: @GeorgetownICAP receives favorable ruling in case seeking to stop self-styled private militia group from operating in New Mexico. [https://t.co/LapuZDYgZM] /1

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Proud to represent @SCNAACP and @ocsdsc in defending South Carolina's constitutional provision protecting public school funding. https://t.co/mrDBDBk62B

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

NEW: @GeorgetownICAP filed a motion to intervene on behalf of @SCNAACP and @ocsdsc to defend South Carolina's no-aid provision and public school funding. https://t.co/ZhxLQMrYIJ

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

NEW: @GeorgetownICAP filed a motion to intervene on behalf of @SCNAACP and @ocsdsc to defend South Carolina's no-aid provision and public school funding. https://t.co/ZhxLQMrYIJ

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

The Public Charge Rule is gone, but the work goes on to ensure that future Presidents do not adopt similar policies. Yesterday, @GeorgetownICAP filed a lawsuit to obtain records to shed light on how the Rule was used and abused while it was in effect. https://t.co/ZFveHcTVEM

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

And special thanks to @CaplanCobb attorney Jarred Klorfein for partnering with ICAP in drafting the brief.

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

A federal court held that GA's anti-BDS law violates the 1st Am in a case in which @GeorgetownICAP filed a brief on behalf of @jstreetdotorg & @truahrabbis. https://t.co/RcRmvQf95e

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

The only court to find an anti-BDS law constitutional was reversed on appeal. https://t.co/iqVMhfcGDD

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Huge victory in the fight against anti-BDS laws that cynically suppress speech in the name of Israel and the Jewish community. Proud to work with @truahrabbis and @jstreetdotorg along w/ my colleagues at @GeorgetownICAP on an amicus brief in this case. https://t.co/VSe7s2uyPF

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Courts have held that similar laws in AR, AZ, KS, and TX were unconstitutional, too.

[Knox News @knoxnews]

Tennessee judges are brushing aside bail laws, and it's costing you https://t.co/VaDallNDxP

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Huge victory in the fight against anti-BDS laws that cynically suppress speech in the name of Israel and the Jewish community. Proud to work with @truahrabbis and @jstreetdotorg along w/ my colleagues at @GeorgetownICAP on an amicus brief in this case. https://t.co/VSe7s2uyPF

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Anti-BDS laws violate the First Amendment by punishing people for expressing their views on the Israel and the Occupation. The Israeli government is lobbying not to correct the laws' constitutional infirmities but to deny plaintiffs a day in court to challenge them.

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

@crucialhogan @journalsentinel Being in a "gang" is not illegal in of itself (although conspiring to commit criminal acts is). As discussed in the article, being a "private militia" is illegal. I use terminology to help underscore that these groups have no right to exist or engage in paramilitary activity.

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

My op-ed in the @journalsentinel. Private militias are illegal in Wisconsin and every other state. When law enforcement does nothing to stop them, that is a choice, not destiny. https://t.co/bBvR6dEgdS

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

"[I]t’s so important that elected officials and law enforcement make clear that there is no Second Amendment right to engage in paramilitary activity and ... that it is unlawful in every state." @HowellONeill quotes @jonathan_backer in @techreview: https://t.co/6LT6ZCDrYJ

[Georgetown Law ICAP @GeorgetownICAP]

"Law enforcement [in Kenosha] said, 'We don’t welcome militias but they have Second Amendment rights.' That statement is harmful and gives militia groups comfort.” @LarryBuhl quotes @jonathan_backer in @capitalandmain re unlawful private militias: https://t.co/zLY4Vbp9Nl

[Jonathan Backer @jonathan_backer]

Kenosha law-enforcement officials keep on saying that militias had a constitutional right to patrol the city's streets on August 25. That's wrong. Second Amendment mythology has deadly consequences. https://t.co/QwgrN0oE3B